Kevin West

An official with the State Department of Corrections says a stay has been issued in the planned execution Wednesday night of death-row inmate Wallace M. Fugate the Third.

The Georgia Supreme Court foiled former Commerce Mayor Mac Barber's bid to return to the Public Service Commission Wednesday.

Offciails announced Wednesday that the proposed Georgia Aquarium will be built in downtown Atlanta on property donated by the Coca-Cola Company near Centennial Olympic Park.

Beleaguered accounting firm Arthur Andersen LLP will sell off 400 original pieces from its corporate art collection, taken from seven of the company's offices in the Southeast, including Atlanta.

An investors group - headed by an Atlanta businessman who heads up Hooters restaurants - is interested in Vanguard Airlines, the Kansas City-based discount carrier that shut down and filed for bankruptcy last month.

An energy trading an marketing company in Atlanta has certified its financial results for 2001.

Former Dallas Cowboys lineman Nate Newton -- who now lives in Ellijay -- was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison after being caught with 175 pounds of marijuana in December.

The government has ordered a Georgia tissue bank to stop selling its cadaver tissue because its products have been linked to a death and serious infections.

With a white man, a black man and a Hispanic woman on the ballot, the Republican race for Secretary of State in the Aug. 20 Georgia primary is the most diverse on the statewide ballot.

A Norcross police officer was justified in returning fire and wounding a man who shot his partner as the officers tried to evict him from a motel, Gwinnett County police said Wednesday.