Kevin West

For the fifth consecutive year, Johnson cheerleading coach Karen Ellis has been named Region Coach of the Year.

The North Georgia College and State University women's basketball team has learned it will play Dillard out of Louisiana next Wednesday in the NAIA national tournament.

Delvon Arrington scored a career high 24 points as Florida State salvaged what has been a disappointing stretch run with a 91-84 overtime win against Clemson in the first round of the ACC tournament Thursday night.

Former United Nations Ambassador Andrew Young said Thursday he backs President Bush's military action in Afghanistan, but he worries about a wider war inflaming the Middle East.

Up to one million starving chickens in Georgia and Florida may have to be killed after their bankrupt owner quit feeding them.

Amber Holt scored 20 points, including the game-winning three-pointer with 34 seconds left in overtime, as Meadowcreek won 43-42 in overtime against Camden County in a Class Five-A girls semifinal Thursday afternoon.

Unidentified human remains from a Walker County crematory will be buried in a public memorial.

Nolan Richardson was lucky he didn't have to coach in this one.

While overseeing the Tri-State Crematory grounds littered with hundreds of decaying bodies, Ray Brent Marsh helped maintain well-kept graves of relatives in a cemetery that bears his family's name.

Anthony Register scored 19 points and Bradley Strickland 13 as Lakeside-DeKalb beat Jonesboro 66-50 in a Class AAAAA boys state semifinal Thursday.