Kevin West

Kevin Harvick's first hint he had done something special last March at Atlanta Motor Speedway came when he saw crewman Danny ``Chocolate'' Myers crying.

Antonio Hudson scored a career-high 24 points, including 15 in the second half, to lift Louisiana State to a 69-62 victory over Vanderbilt Thursday afternoon in the opening round of the Southeastern Conference tournament.

Closing arguments will be heard in Atlanta Friday in the murder trial of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin who was known in the 1960s as black radical Rap Brown.

Riverside has added lacrosse to its athletic program and opened its first season with a win Wednesday over South Cobb. The Grayson girls beat west Hall in soccer

The North Georgia College baseball team rallied for six runs in the final three innings to beat Anderson College 8-7 Wednesday.

The Gainesville teams and the Johnson girls picked up Wednesday wins in the Hall County Tennis Tournament.

The risk of getting killed by someone is greater during the first year of life than at any other time before age 17, the government reported Thursday.

A suspicious item detected by a screening machine Thursday morning forced another evacuation at Los Angeles International Airport, the latest in a series of shutdowns.

Unseasonably warm weather and new fashion trends helped spark early spring apparel sales during February and raised hopes that consumers might begin spending more freely and speed the economic recovery.

China has agreed to phase in a new requirement that biotech crops be certified for their safety, clearing the way for shipments of U.S. soybeans to resume.