Kevin West

A convenience store clerk was shot to death late Monday during a robbery at a Texaco gas station in DeKalb County.

Federal plans for bomb detection machines at Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport would result in three-hour waits and lines of passengers out into the rain, airport general manager Ben DeCosta said.

H. Boyd Pettit III, an attorney and lobbyist who represents an investment banking firm that sold bonds for transportation projects, has resigned his seat on the state Department of Transportation board.

Hundreds of protesters lined the sidewalks near police headquarters Monday to protest the shooting of a black teenager accused of trying to run over an officer.

A former south Georgia auto dealer has been sentenced to nine years in federal prison on racketeering charges for submitting false documents to obtain car loans for customers, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Monday.

Caraustar Industries Inc. said Monday it would buy Smurfit-Stone Container Corp.'s Industrial Packaging Group for about $79.8 million.

Two brothers who were clearing brush at the Mountain Top Boys Home were fatally shot Monday in what authorities said may have been a robbery.

A Cobb County movie theater was evacuated after an apparent release of pepper spray inside one of the theaters.

A candlelight vigil is planned for 9:30 Monday night at the site where a 34-year-old DeKalb County police officer died in a wreck this weekend.

The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation is donating $6.5 million in grants to preserve 430 acres for open green space, recreation and education in metro Atlanta.