Kevin West

The NCAA wants to change eligibility requirements for incoming student-athletes by lowering the emphasis on standardized tests and increasing the weight of classroom work.

Rising fuel costs and continued weakness in the airline industry require US Airways Group Inc. to trim annual costs by up to $1.6 billion a year - nearly $400 million more than previous estimates - to achieve profitability, airline officials said Tuesday.

Regions Financial Corporation has named two new members to its board of directors.

DaimlerChrysler denies a discouraging letter from the NAACP played a role in its decision to choose Georgia over South Carolina as the possible location of a van plant.

Chevrolet has teamed with evangelical concerts for a marketing campaign that some say sends mixed messages.

The state is investigating a second former state senator to determine whether he improperly accepted fees for helping prisoners.

An Emory University professor who won the Pulitzer Prize for a book on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been suspended following his arrest last month on a simple battery charge.

Georgia baker Kenny Burts doesn't plan on following the traditional recipe for baking his gargantuan key lime pie this week, but the pan he'll be using is certainly authentic to the Florida Keys.

A tent-revival preacher who served 11 years in prison for molesting hundreds of young boys has been ordered to leave Puerto Rico.

Here is The Associated Press high school football poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, record and total points: