Kevin West

Boosters of Georgia's university system want the new chancellor to feel right at home. They have provided him a nearly new $1.9 million home with one of the most prestigious street addresses in Atlanta.

According to notes of a meeting kept by the prison administrator, two members of the state Board of Pardons and Paroles advocated the transfer of a convicted killer in a meeting with a corrections department official.

In make-up basketball action Wednesday night, the Jefferson and Piedmont teams picked up wins on the prep and college hardwoods.

Ted Turner, in town to promote his new restaurant venture, had a reminder for those who might wonder whether bison burgers will be a hit.

Federal drug agents smashed a drug-smuggling and distribution ring run by Middle Easterners Thursday, charging nearly 100 people with selling common cold tablets smuggled from Canada for conversion to methamphetamine.

The U.S. military on Thursday began moving hooded and chained prisoners from the war in Afghanistan to a jail in Cuba.

Fighting to return to profitability amid a global electronics slump, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. is restructuring its operations to avoid overlap in research and speed up product development.

The National Cattlemen's Beef Association is searching for a new chief executive.

A doctor who treated herself for breast cancer while working at a research station in Antarctica was sued by her former husband, who claimed she defamed him in a book about her 1999 rescue.

A 13-year-old boy was planning to blow up his junior high school, police said Thursday after seizing five small homemade bombs and bomb-making material from his home.