Authorities say Stewart County Deputy Magistrate judge Sarah Simmons has been accused of stealing about $1,400 last December from two Randolph County companies.
McDonald's is reportedly close to settling lawsuits filed by vegetarians accusing the restaurant chain of concealing the use of beef extract in its French fries.
The NAIA second-ranked Brenau University women's tennis team delivered Armstrong Atlantic State its first loss of the season Wednesday in a tough 5-4 win.
The future of a top Agriculture Department nominee is in doubt after he acknowledged that his Iowa farm was once forced to repay $17,000 in subsidies to the government.
Fulton County police are searching for a suspect in an early morning robbery at a sports bar in northwest Atlanta that left a pregnant woman dead and an employee wounded.
A witness in the San Francisco dog mauling trial said he dropped off one of the huge dogs with a vanload of others in the dead of night and a group of men including some with prison tattoos, emerged to claim them.
Rain threatened the Ohio Valley, western Tennessee Valley, and lower Mississippi Valley on Thursday while a mix of sleet and freezing drizzle was forecast for parts of Michigan and New York.
Buoyed by rising technology and financial issues, Tokyo's blue-chip stock index surged Thursday to its highest finish in seven months amid forecasts that the U.S. economy may be on the path to recovery.
A federal judge has given the record labels suing Napster until Thursday to produce documents proving they own the copyrights to 213 songs that once traded for free over the song-swapping service.
