Kevin West

The NAACP pledged to save a banquet in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. after a citizen's group that organized the yearly event canceled it.

Hall County schools are teaching English to immigrant children through a new program called the Newcomers Academy.

Mirant Corporation has announced measures to help the energy giant weather the current downturn in the wholesale power industry and strengthen its long-term viability.

Southeast Georgia Regional Medical Center in Brunswick plans a $33 million addition for outpatient surgery, diabetes treatment and other services.

Tennessee offensive line coach Mike Barry resigned Friday, saying he wanted to pursue other opportunities ``in or out of coaching.''

Already, New Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine has had one nugget of welcome news in his uphill battle to lead Democrats to majority status in the Senate.

A former manager of a South Bend drug store has been sentenced to 144 years in prison for the 1990 killings of three former co-workers.

Republican Gov.-elect Sonny Perdue has asked six members of the mostly Democratic state school board to resign and plans to ask the others to leave soon, officials confirmed Friday.

A 19-year-old honors student apologized and was spared a prison sentence for trespassing on Fort Benning during a protest against a training academy for Latin American soldiers and police.

Two girls have been charged with making a bomb threat this week at Lee County Elementary School, the latest in a rash of false alarms at the county's public schools over the past several months.