Kevin West

Record mogul Russell Simmons is urging Congress to free hip-hop pioneer Slick Rick the INS jail in Bradenton, Florida, as he fights deportation.

Virginia's Corporation Commission may settle a name dispute between the state's first white Southern Christian Leadership Conference president and a rival faction of the civil rights group founded by Martin Luther King Junior.

Firefighters are battling a blaze on a cargo ship in the Savannah harbor. The fire started just before 11 a.m. Thursday in the boiler room of the freighter.

Ask for directions to First Avenue in Macon and you might get four different answers.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter says he's pleased the Bush administration has softened its stance on unilateral action against Iraq.

The Marietta City Council has voted 5-2 to reprimand Mayor Bill Dunaway for confronting a city official and using inappropriate language.

The Marietta City Council voted 5-2 Wednesday to reprimand Mayor Bill Dunaway for confronting a city official and using inappropriate language.

Rescue workers have called off the search for an Atlanta man believed drowned in a lake in Rockdale County.

A businessman has been convicted of kidnapping a Marietta woman who was found abandoned in a car trunk alongside a Tennessee roadway.

A DeKalb County physical education teacher has been arrested on charges of molesting a middle school student.