Kevin West

An Atlanta-based oil pipeline company has agreed to pay a $34 million civil penalty under the Clean Water Act to settle government charges that seven oil spills illegally polluted waterways in five southern states, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tues

Lee Mitchell's two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning launched a 20-hit Georgia attack that ended with a 15-5 victory over the College of Charleston Tuesday night.

A federal judge in Augusta is to hear arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the city's law regulating public protests.

Closing in on Baghdad itself, U.S. forces Wednesday seized a bridge over the Tigris River and swept past battered Republican Guard units.

American troops on Tuesday rescued Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, who had been held as a prisoner of war in Iraq since she and other members of her unit were ambushed March 23, the Defense Department announced.

Warplanes pummelled Republican Guard units defending Baghdad on Tuesday and U.S. and British ground forces attacked Iraqi positions in key southern cities, around-the-clock combat clearing the way for an assault on Saddam Hussein's capital.

By the end of this day, the Army would fight street to street, capture and kill scores of Saddam Hussein's troops, blow up a ruling party headquarters and destroy heaps of ammunition and mortars - and rescue one elderly woman from a firefight.

Davis Love the Third provided the charge everyone expected from Tiger Woods and delivered a performance every bit as dominant at The Players Championship.

About 100 new jobs will be created over the next two years after the Lavonia automotive plastics plant completes its
$10-Million-plus expansion, officials said.

Alan Johnson threw a complete game two-hitter in a 7-0 victory Saturday as Mississippi State shut out Mississippi for the second consecutive game.