Kevin West

BellSouth Corporation has agreed to pay $200,000 and enhanced retirement benefits to a former employee who alleged in a federal lawsuit she was fired because of her age.

Georgia State improved its Atlantic Sun Conference record to 6-5 with an 81-64 road victory over Campbell.

Eli Lilly and Co. on Thursday reported a 25 percent decline in earnings for the fourth quarter as the drugmaker suffered from the loss of its patent on Prozac and the emergence of a less expensive generic version of the anti-depressant pill.

Americans made advances in the 1990s against a broad list of diseases, but significant gaps remain for racial and ethnic minorities, says a government study that provides a snapshot of the nation's health.

A flight instructor who was in the plane when a 16-year-old student pilot at the controls buzzed the Fayette County Fair has been sentenced to 30 days in jail.

Compaq Computer Corporation said Thursday it will begin marketing high-speed Internet access from EarthLink Incorporated on its Presario consumer computers.

Six former Tyson Foods Inc. managers surrendered to federal authorities Thursday and planned to plead innocent to charges of conspiring to smuggle illegal immigrants to work at 15 chicken processing plants in nine states.

Two years after last seeing their son, the parents of Taliban soldier John Walker Lindh met with him on Thursday shortly before his first appearance in federal court.

A student preparing to play his first basketball game for Fayetteville State University in North Carolina has died after becoming ill at practice.

Two elms will be planted Thursday on the front lawn of the Georgia Governor's Mansion.