Kevin West

The scoring errors on a standardized test used by schools to measure student performance in basic skills may never be fixed properly, state officials said Thursday.

Condemned killer Timothy Don Carr, who had been scheduled to die Friday for slitting a teenager's throat in 1994, will have a federal court hearing on the appeal of his death sentence.

A Beech Island, S.C., man has been accused of stealing computer information from the Medical College of Georgia Hospital and Clinics.

A Georgia deputy has been suspended without pay after hitting a man with his cruiser and then striking him with his fists following a high-speed chase.

Thirteen years after he was banned from baseball and five years after his application for reinstatement was ignored, Pete Rose believes the game he once dominated has turned its back on him permanently.

Wren Fowler of Thomson, Georgia, is in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.

Spalding County's 13/14-year-old PONY baseball team is threatening a lawsuit because it was denied access into Monday's Southeastern PONY Regional Tournament because it broke PONY rules by playing in two tournaments at the same time last week.

Traditional soda pop rivals Coca-Cola and Pepsi found themselves on the same side Thursday in defending a decision by school officials in one Montana town to give them exclusive contracts to sell soft drinks on campus.

Percy Ricks Jr., one of the first black noncommissioned officers in the Army, died at the Augusta Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers. He was 82.

Georgia's unemployment rate was 5.2 percent in June, up from 4.5 percent in May, the state Labor Department said Thursday.