Kevin West

Derek Watson said Tuesday he plans to prove his innocence of a misdemeanor drug charge and would work to be reinstated as a South Carolina running back.

Vanderbilt University announced Tuesday it has settled a discrimination lawsuit brought by seven women's track team members.

Anthony Grundy hadn't missed much all night. Josh Powell made sure one of Grundy's few errors didn't cost North Carolina State.

Travis Watson had 20 points and 17 rebounds and Roger Mason Jr. scored 25 points Tuesday night, helping to rally No. 10 Virginia to an 86-74 victory over No. 14 Wake Forest.

Although NASCAR's new one-engine rule won't take effect until the week after the season-opening Daytona 500, the Winston Cup engine builders are thrashing away to make sure they have some fail-safe motors ready.

The Georgia Lottery Corp. has turned over $180.6 million to the state treasury to be spent on education, the third largest quarterly ansfer since the lottery began in 1993.

University of Georgia police are investigating a report of rape and attempted rape at a dormitory that allegedly involved athletes, associate athletic director Claude Felton said Tuesday.

The Justice Department said Tuesday that lawsuits filed by the Clinton administration alleging clean air violations at 51 power plants, including plants in Georgia and Alabama, were reasonable and will move forward.

The Fulton County grand jury indicted a 38-year-old Fayetteville man Tuesday on murder charges in the death of his wife, whose remains were found on a hog farm more than two years after she disappeared.

The federal agency assigned to root out discrimination on the job can seek money or other damages in court for employees who have signed away their own rights to sue, a divided Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.