Kevin West

A Mexican immigrant has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for vehicular homicide in the death of a 39-year-old Athens man who saved the life of a baby in a stroller when he jumped in front of a speeding car.

Georgia Southern University's Performing Arts Center kicks off its grand opening Sunday with a presentation of the Broadway hit ``Swing!''

Joe Chao spent years uprooting unsightly developers' signs that advertise new homes but also crowd roadsides in the booming north Atlanta suburb of Woodstock.

Edison Schools Incorporated, which lost a contract with Macon, Georgia, has produced mixed results after 19 months managing seven Las Vegas area campuses, according to a Clark County school administrator.

A two-thousand-acre animal preserve in southeast Georgia could be home to a Georgia heritage theme park as well.

National Commerce Financial agreed to acquire mortgage lender BancMortgage Financial Corporation, an Atlanta-based unit of Habersham Bank, which is a unit of Habersham Bancorp.

Judge Aubrey Duffey ordered a mistrial Thursday morning in the trial of two former State University of West Georgia baseball players charged with sexually assaulting a female student.

The late Eugene Odum, a University of Georgia ecologist, left 25 acres along the Middle Oconee River in Athens-Clarke County to the University of Georgia Foundation.

Georgia's chief medical examiner says work is wrapping up on the remains of corpses found at the Tri-State Crematory, even though many human remains have yet to be identified.

Governor-elect Sonny Purdue's victory over Roy Barnes earlier this month has left the future of the former Tift College campus in Forsyth in limbo.