Kevin West

Emory University has received a ten-million-dollar grant to create a new doctoral program in theology.

Patrick Ewing retired from the NBA on Tuesday, ending the 17-year career of one of the league's greatest centers but leaving him short of his repeated promise to win a championship.

A Pennsylvania beef-packing company owned by Smithfield Foods recalled 203,600 pounds of ground beef after some of its meat tested positive for E. coli bacteria.

Governor Bush said Tuesday that he called the Georgia woman who alerted authorities of last week's possible terror threat to thank her for the warning.

The driver of a motorcycle that collided with a school bus Tuesday morning has been taken to Grady Memorial Hospital and is listed in critical but stable condition.

One of the Justice Department's initiatives for expanding public vigilance -- Operation TIPS -- has run into widespread opposition, from both conservatives and liberations.

A would-be Libertarian candidate for Congress is suing to get his name on the ballot in a new west Georgia district.

A south Georgia paper mill worker who was burned in a boiler explosion in August has died.

Police have made a second arrest in the slayings of two men gunned down with a rifle during a robbery last week on a street corner.

One college student was raped and three others were robbed in a home invasion early Monday morning just north of the Fort Valley State University campus.