Kevin West

A federal appeals court has overturned convictions of a Florida abortion doctor and a business associate accused of trying to extort money from officials in Ocala, Fla., in a controversy over an abortion clinic there.

CIA officials are not doing enough to allow field officers to recruit unsavory characters to infiltrate terrorist organizations, the chairman of a House homeland security panel said Tuesday.

Housing prices that are rising faster than wages, and poor credit, are keeping about 1 million Georgia families nearly a third of all families in the state from buying their own homes, according to a University of Georgia study.

Florida congressional leaders introduced legislation Tuesday to end dredging on the Apalachicola River, saying spending $20 million to clear the way for barges that don't use it anymore doesn't make sense.

The Teamsters and United Parcel Service Inc., dodging a repeat of the devastating 1997 strike, announced a tentative contract agreement Tuesday that gives workers a 22 percent pay increase over six years and creates 10,000 new full-time jobs.

Sons of the Desert, a Little Rascal and hundreds of fans gathered at the opening of the Laurel and Hardy Museum in Harlem, the east Georgia hometown of comic Oliver Hardy.

Teamsters and United Parcel Service Inc. officials shook hands Tuesday on a new six-year contract valued at $9 billion that will give workers increases in wages and benefits and adds new union jobs.

Florida congressional leaders have introduced legislation to end dredging on the Apalachicola River.

The state Department of Transportation has closed the welcome center on Interstate 85 northbound near the Alabama state line.

Mirant Corporation has agreed to sell a Wisconsin power plant to Alliant Energy Resources for $109 million.