After 40 years between contested elections for Superior Court in Clarke and Oconee counties, the impending retirement of Senior Judge Joseph Gaines has set off a scramble.
A funeral was scheduled for Wednesday for the sister of the Macon police chief was found beaten to death in her home in Maryland. Her boyfriend was discovered dead in his backyard the next day in an apparent suicide.
Circuit City Stores Inc. sales increased 9 percent in the fourth quarter and reaffirmed Wednesday its earnings forecast for the quarter and for the fiscal year for its used-car business called CarMax and its electronics store chain.
A state Highway Patrol report released Tuesday confirmed a driver's license examiner charged in a bogus license scheme was not killed by the impact of her car ramming into a utility pole last month.
Orders to U.S. factories rose by 1.6 percent in January, lifted by stronger demand for cars, computers and machinery, providing new evidence that the battered manufacturing sector is turning a corner.
The maker of Wonder Bread has agreed to settle federal charges that it made unsupported advertising claims that calcium in its products could make children's minds work better and improve their memories.
