Kevin West

Josh Howard scored 20 points and Steve Lepore added 15 as No. 23 Wake Forest beat North Carolina 84-62 Saturday.

Daryl Dingle scored 21 points to lead Florida Atlantic to a 90-77 victory over Georgia State Saturday.

A medical examiner who performed an autopsy on a man killed in a fight with a fellow hockey dad said it would require ``substantial force'' to inflict the injuries that caused the victim's death.

It was a two-point win Friday night for the Piedmont Lady Lions' basketball team over visiting Illinois Wesleyan.

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. has agreed to a $250 million settlement in which it must pay as many as 700,000 Georgia motorists for the lost value of cars damaged in collisions.

Hundreds of people who bought Microsoft's hot new Xbox gaming console over the holidays received defective systems, and some said they had to wait weeks and endure shoddy customer service before their systems were fixed.

DaimlerChrysler AG said it expects to post an operating profit of about 1.2 billion euros ($1.08 billion) for 2001, sharply below the previous year.

Long-distance carrier AT&T Corp. announced it will cut another 5,000 jobs and take a related $1 billion fourth-quarter restructuring charge to cover the cost of those staff cuts.

Service Merchandise Co. Inc., a 42-year-old home-and-jewelry specialty chain that has operated under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection since March 1999, announced Friday that it is going out of business.

A Columbus man has pleaded guilty to the April 17, 2000, slaying of a 23-year-old woman, avoiding the possibility of a death sentence.