Kevin West

A locomotive pulling several vintage passenger cars is making a trial run Tuesday through the peanut fields and small towns of southwest Georgia to former President Jimmy Carter's hometown.

Former Dayton, Ohio, police Chief Ronald Lowe Senior -- who rose through the ranks to lead the police force before retiring in 2000 -- has died. He was 57.

A federal appeals court panel has removed several restrictions on judicial candidates in Georgia, saying that elections for judges should be conducted like any other political campaign.

State and federal agents were trying to track down the senders of $9.3 million in cocaine and heroin found in a shipment of onions from Peru.

United Parcel Service Inc. reported a small increase in third-quarter profits Tuesday, despite the defection of some customers on fears of labor problems, but the results failed to meet Wall Street's expectations.

Mirant Corp. suffered another financial blow Monday when Standard & Poor's lowered its credit ratings of the energy merchant to noninvestment grade. S&P, which also lowered its rating on the company's preferred stock, said Mirant's outlook is

It's time to ``fall back'' this weekend as standard time returns early Sunday. That means an extra hour of sleep for most of the country as people move their clocks back.

Cherokee County authorities have arrested the grandson of an 84-year-old man beaten to death at his home over the weekend.

Prosecutors could begin trying to prove to a jury that an East Point grandmother should be convicted of involuntary manslaughter because her 11-year-old son killed her three-year-old granddaughter.

A Muslim from Houston has filed a lawsuit in federal court saying Chick-fil-A's corporate purpose to glorify God discriminates against its non-Christian employees.