Tony Mitchell scored a career-high 21 points, including 11 during a decisive 22-6 run, as College of Charleston beat Georgia Southern 84-79 on Saturday.
A man suspected of illegally taking more than $630,000 from 18 Georgia residents who thought they were making solid investments turned himself in Friday.
Sam Zamarripa didn't look like a future state senator when he was 14. The son of a Mexican immigrant and an Irish-American mother who never went beyond a fifth-grade education, Zamarripa had just quit school to work at a funeral home.
Petitions are circulating a petition demanding that state Representative Gerald Greene get his history teaching post back after the superintendent told him he couldn't be a representative and a teacher at the same time.
South Georgia farmer Randy Scarbor wonders why he keeps growing sweet potatoes year after year even though most Americans only eat the vegetables around holidays, if they eat them at all.
Tobacco and food company Altria Group Inc. on Friday agreed to pay the largest ethics fine in Georgia history for failing to disclose more than $450,000 in state political contributions.
