Kevin West

A lawsuit has been filed against an Atlanta author who wrote a book about the life of the late singer Otis Redding detailing rumors of drug use, infidelity and a contemplated divorce.

The Surface Transportation Policy Project study released Thursday by the Washington-based group ranks Atlanta as the 12th most dangerous metropolitan area for walkers.

Four teenagers have been accused of abducting a 63-year-old man whose body was found in the trunk of a burning car in South Carolina.

John Edgemon says he has had enough of the sea after being stranded for three days with his father, brother and a friend in a Gulf of Mexico storm.

The Montreal Expos will play 22 of their 81 home games in Puerto Rico next year.

With fewer than 500 residents and less than four square miles of area, the tiny town of Pendergrass -- on U.S. Highway 29 between Athens and Gainesville -- has done just fine without a police force.

A subsidiary of mining giant Phelps Dodge Corporation is under investigation by U.S. and European antitrust authorities.

A Yamaha Manufacturing plant received an $82,000 fine Wednesday for electrical hazards that led to a worker's death.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board has found that toxic fumes from a chemical sewer system caused two deaths and eight injuries at a Georgia-Pacific Corporation plant in southwest Alabama in January.

A judge has issued an indefinite stay on the planned execution of a man convicted of raping and strangling an Atlanta go-go dancer.