Kevin West

Mississippi State coach Jackie Sherill said running back and Atlanta native Nick Turner will remain on the football team despite his legal problems.

About 40 members of the 342nd Adjutant General Company (Postal) Army Reserve unit have been called to active duty beginning Friday as part of the country's mobilization for possible war against Iraq.

Relatives buried three children Thursday who police said were shot to death by their father in the U.S. state of Georgia.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation has arrested one former state employee and is seeking another on charges that they helped divert more than three million dollars in state funds and property for personal use.

The nation's oldest religious newspaper has cut its staff by half and announced a new direction for its editorial content.

A hearing is scheduled Friday on whether Walker County grand jurors should be disqualified from hearing evidence against Tri-State Crematory operator Brent Marsh.

Weary members of the Athens-Clarke County Commission met for nearly nine straight hours before adjourning at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday and still didn't finish all the items on the agenda.

It took Richmond County sheriff's investigator Richard Roundtree an hour to take a statement from a deaf man after a shooting at an Augusta apartment building.

A lockdown in an elementary school in south Paulding County has ended after police arrest two men in a nearby house on drug charges.

Delta Air Lines plans to spend $30 million to speed up its passenger check-in process at 81 airports by expanding its use of ATM-like kiosks and phone banks connected to reservation agents.