Kevin West

No. 10 Scoville Jenkins, of Atlanta, lost his first set in a 10-8 tiebreaker, then rallied for a 6-1, 6-4 win over Jay Cunningham, of Edmond, Oklahoma at the USTA Super National Boys' 16 Championships.

Needing a win to clinch a playoff spot, the Atlanta Beat lost its second straight game, a 1-0 loss to San Diego Wednesday.

Officials of Augusta State University and friends and family of the late Thomas F. Allgood Sr. and his wife, Thelma, gathered Wednesday to dedicate a new classroom building in memory of the couple killed in a plane crash two years ago.

Hank Klibanoff, a deputy managing editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer, was named managing editor/news of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and James Mallory, a deputy managing editor at the paper, was promoted to managing editor/initiatives and operations

A federal appeals court panel has upheld a Florida ruling that a sugar cane farm is not illegally polluting Lake Okeechobee through its management of a water management system.

The Ionia, Michigan, County sheriff said state ethnic-intimidation charges will likely be filed against the men suspected of attacking former Michigan State University football star T.J. Duckett.

Twenty children at a south Georgia elementary school were treated and released from a hospital after being exposed to methane gas.

The Home Depot will open the first ``orange box'' store it has built in Mexico Thursday, the first of four new Home Depots the company will have there by year's end.

Savannah's planning commission struck down a request to build houses on a marsh hammock, one of the small islands that dot the grassy wetlands of coastal Georgia.

A group of Jordanians, visiting the United States for three weeks to promote international friendship, learned how to say ``grits,'' ``y'all,'' and ``magnolias'' Wednesday as they became honorary Southerners.