Kevin West

Smyrna police are looking for a man who attacked a 7-year-old girl on a playground at an apartment complex Thursday.

A 23-year-old woman was killed in a house fire Thursday night despite attempts to escape the blaze.

Cobb County police have charged eight people with operating a nationwide sports betting ring and seized more than $475,000 in cash, plus assets ranging from bank accounts to property.

Senior forward Bam Campbell scored a career-best 23 points, and Thomas Terrell had 22 points and 16 rebounds in Georgia State's 82-74 Atlantic Sun Conference victory over Mercer Thursday night.

Kara Lawson hit a pull-up jumper from just inside the foul line at the buzzer to give No. 3 Tennessee an 80-78 victory over Mississippi State on Thursday night.

Milt Thompson, an Atlanta Braves outfielder in 1984-85 who is now a batting instructor with the Philadelphia Phillies, has been charged with abandonment of a dependent child.

Billy Andrade of Atlanta is tied for second going into Friday's second round of the Nissan Open.

Here is the lineup for Sunday's season-opening Daytona 500 NASCAR race at Daytona Beach, Florida.

The Bush administration is proposing to spend $38 million on a joint government-industry project to study whether a new commercial nuclear power plant can be built on federal land.

DeKalb Medical Center has been granted state approval to build the first hospital in Lithonia, a rapidly growing suburb east of Atlanta.