Kevin West

Thanks to yet another missed field goal by a Florida State kicker in the final seconds, No. 1 Miami hung on for a 28-27 victory over the ninth-ranked Seminoles on Saturday.

Nakia Burgess, the mother accused of murdering her child after she left her 3-year-old strapped in a sweltering car, was released from jail Friday on a $40,000 bond.

Peachtree City officials have approved building a cart-only parking lot at McIntosh High School to eliminate cart parking on city streets.

Lincoln County coach Larry Campbell has set a new record for the most wins by a high school coach in Georgia.

The American Institute of Parapsychology, which professes to investigate hauntings with scientific rigor, is holding a conference here this weekend to declare Savannah ``America's Most Haunted City.''

Here are this weekend's prep football scores from around north Georgia and the state:

The South Carolina NAACP opens it annual conference in Savannah Friday -- instead of in its home state -- to protest the flying of the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds.

President Bush will travel to Atlanta on Thursday to attend luncheons for Sonny Perdue and U.S. Congressman Saxby Chambliss.

Two Georgia men have been sentenced for trying to lure children to sex and pornography over the Internet.

Twelfth District Congressional candidates Champ Walker Junior and Max Burns are finding that the best offense includes acting offended.