Kevin West

The Telemundo television network is putting Dalton in the spotlight of Spanish-language TV.

The chairman of the Legislative Black Caucus resigned as head of a Senate committee after fellow senators criticized his appointment.

Ruth Austin Knox was named president of Wesleyan College on Thursday, becoming the second woman and first alumna to get the job.

A Bartow County teacher was arrested Thursday on four sex charges, including child molestation, The Daily Tribune News of Cartersville reported.

The top leader in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has asked ministers and elders to reconsider their support for a meeting to push for strict enforcement of church bans on homosexual ministers and wedding-like ceremonies for gays.

Federated Department Stores Inc. plans to close 11 stores and cut nearly 2,000 jobs this year as it expects its fiscal 2003 sales and earnings will be flat.

Left-hander Damian Moss and the San Francisco Giants avoided salary arbitration Thursday by agreeing to a one-year, $1.55 million contract.

Some 1,500 workers will lose their jobs when Federated Department Stores closes its Macy's stores in metro Atlanta, but it's not clear yet which ones.

About 45 doctors, dentists, nurses and others who are members of the 7224th Medical Support Unit, an Army Reserve outfit, are being mobilized and will report to Fort Stewart, Ga., this weekend, an official said.

An Albany man who planted a grapefruit tree as an experiment looked out his window earlier this month only to be pleasantly surprised by fruit growing on its branches.