Kevin West

A government study shows nearly half of New Hampshire middle schoolers who smoked in 2000 had dropped the habit a year later after cigarette makers raised their prices.

Delta Air Lines reportedly will announce reduced flights on unprofitable routes to and from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

The U.S. Energy Department looks for gasoline prices to climb over the next three months. It cites the cutoff of production from Venezuela.

Four months after Cobb County schools opened the door to considering ``disputed views'' of evolution, the school district has issued guidelines that advise teachers to stick to science.

One spot has Penelope Cruz stroll into a restaurant, chug a Coke and then burp. Another shows Courtney Cox using an ice pick to prepare a glass of Coke for husband David Arquette as he plays pinball in their living room.

A 16-year-old Cherokee County student is being treated for injuries sustained when he fell from the back of a pickup truck.

A fire destroyed the Fayette Daily News building Thursday morning. No injuries were reported, and the cause of the fire is unknown.

Publishing sources say Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas will receive more than one million dollars for his memoirs.

The executive chef at the Governor's Mansion in South Carolina will become executive chef at Augusta National Golf Club.

A middle school teacher and his wife, who taught kindergarten, were arrested on drug charges after a deputy found marijuana and cocaine at their home while responding to a burglar alarm, authorities said.