Kevin West

In some school bathrooms, Tom Keating discovered it was easier to find the toilet paper hanging from the ceiling than in the stalls.

Alligator snapping turtles, the largest freshwater turtles in the Americas, spend most of their lives sitting at the bottom of rivers and bayous, waiting to snap their powerful jaws on fish that are attracted to their built-in lures.

Each day, Gary Palmer walks through a forest at Greenwood Plantation that is essentially the same as it was half a millennium ago, seeing animals and plants that are dwindling throughout the South.

A teenager accused of statutory rape and child molestation of a 15-year-old Cherokee County girl has been charged with three additional crimes.

Three Republican candidates for lieutenant governor say they will require women considering abortions to be given information about other options.

Jack Moebes, a photographer who shot the picture of the 1960 Woolworth's sit-in that hangs in the Smithsonian, has died.

Blood samples from two people tested positive for the West Nile virus in preliminary screenings in Arkansas, but will require more tests to confirm that the two do indeed have the illness, Dr. Fay Boozman, the state Health Department director, said Saturd

Officials in three northeast Georgia counties are trapping mosquitoes and submitting them for West Nile testing.

Their accents were more south Georgia than South America, but that didn't stop a group of Republican candidates from visiting a Mexican restaurant in Gwinnett County recently to make a pitch for Hispanic voters.

Among those enshrined into the hall were former Oklahoma coach Barry Switzer, former Georgia kicker Kevin Butler, former Michigan receiver Anthony Carter and former Mississippi State linebacker D.D. Lewis.