Kevin West

Olympic gymnastics great Olga Korbut was arrested on charges she shoplifted $19 worth of groceries from a supermarket.

Air Jordan, the most successful brand of Nike basketball shoes, is taking a vertical leap with a price of $200 a pair.

An important gauge of manufacturing activity ticked higher in January, suggesting that the battered sector is poised to emerge from its 1 1/2 year-slump, an industry group said Friday.

Sales of Ford Motor Co. vehicles dropped 12.6 percent last month compared with January 2001, the automaker reported Friday.

The accounting profession is taking steps to eliminate the appearance of conflicts of interest in the kinds of services they offer their audit clients.

The city of Savannah has reached an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Since the federal appeals court in Atlanta began hearing cases in 1866, there has been one constant on its three-judge panels: men.

With national signing day set for Wednesday, the Jackets are running neck-and-neck with Tennessee for Cedar Grove lineman Marcus McNeil.

Hard-line cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati ridiculed Bush's warnings to Iran not to harbor associates of Osama bin Laden or cause upheaval in neighboring Afghanistan.

The nation's unemployment rate unexpectedly dropped to 5.6 percent in January as businesses slowed their job cuts to the lowest level since before the terrorist attacks.