Kevin West

Georgia Tech officials said Tuesday that a special software program designed by professors to detect cheating in students' homework assignments turned up 186 possible violators last fall.

Georgia farmers who hold peanut quotas organized Tuesday to fight a provision in the proposed farm bill that they say would illegally deprive them of assets and pillage their retirement incomes.

Savannah police say an 18-year-old robbery suspect out on bond likely shot his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself.

Surgeon General David Satcher, a Clinton appointee who has clashed with the Bush administration, came to Atlanta Tuesday to accept a job at Morehouse College.

The man who was spared electrocution when the Georgia Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional now has a date to be executed by lethal injection.

There is no money in the bank and no money to pay salaries. Afghanistan's interim administration is desperate, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Two students were seriously wounded Tuesday in a shooting in a high school.

James "Boots" Donnelly was hired Tuesday as athletic director at Middle Tennessee State, where he was the football coach for 20 years before resigning four years ago.

Stock of Kmart Corp. plunged close to 15 percent in midafternoon trading Tuesday, fueled by concerns over a possible bankruptcy filing amid a series of downgrades by analysts and investment rating agencies.

Chicago's Anthony Thomas is the Associated Press NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year.