A woman who admitted fatally shooting her two sons suffering from Huntington's disease will avoid murder charges by pleading guilty to breaking Georgia's little-used assisted suicide law, according to her attorney.
Georgia State University will take steps beginning this spring to make sure the school is no longer a safety school for students who don't get into the University of Georgia.
The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search-and-rescue mission for three people missing since a twin-engine plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Fernandina Beach.
Recent cold weather has led to several fires in vacant Albany buildings, including an abandoned building where demolition workers stumbled upon two bodies days later.
Southern Co. Monday said its fourth-quarter profit surged 44 percent, thanks in part to cold weather in the Southeast and rate increases in Alabama and Florida.
A nightclub security guard was jailed Monday following a shooting at the Delta nightspot that left one man dead and three wounded, including two Mississippi Valley State University athletes.
Brian Collins scored 17 points, and Adam Sonn added 16 points and 11 rebounds to lead Belmont to a 69-67 Atlantic Sun Conference victory over Mercer Monday night.
Twelve protesters arrested at Fort Benning last fall were sentenced to federal prison terms Monday for trespassing during a demonstration against the post's training school for Latin American soldiers.
