Kevin West

The U.S. Coast Guard rescued five fishermen from Stuart after their boat sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the Brevard County coast Tuesday.

Atlanta Falcons running back T.J. Duckett was excused from practice so he could attend a preliminary hearing Tuesday for two men who allegedly attacked him July 21 in Ionia, Michigan.

Tri-State Crematory operator Ray Brent Marsh is expected to be released this evening from the security of jail to the outside world, where he may face families angry over charges he discarded 339 bodies.

Four Alabama men were killed in a one-car accident early Tuesday on U.S. 27 near the west Georgia town of Centralhatchee, about 50 miles southwest of Atlanta.

A South Carolina man has come forward with the winning ticket for the latest Lotto South drawing, a ticket worth $9.9 million before taxes.

A mother accused of hitting a police officer while trying to protect her autistic son in a grocery store pleaded with the officer to release her combative son, a store customer testified Tuesday.

State officials said Tuesday that a fire at a small Baptist church on a dirt road in Fannin County appears to have been arson.

A defunct jet repair company was fined $500,000 Tuesday for failing to train its workers to properly handle hazardous materials before the 1996 ValuJet crash that killed 110 people.

Federal officials say an airport screening supervisor in Atlanta was fired because he missed a loaded gun during a hand-check of a bag belonging to a woman charged with carrying the weapon into a terminal at Philadelphia International Airport.

A Macon city councilman says a report that he wanted to kill himself was false and invented by his political enemies, but police are not so sure.