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LSU acknowledged it violated NCAA rules by allowing a university tutor to help a prospective student athlete, but asked the NCAA to reinstate eligibility for the unnamed potential player.

The Atlanta Braves put right-handed reliever Darren Holmes on the 15-day disabled list Monday and activated right-hander Albie Lopez.

The Teamsters reached an agreement on a new contract with United Parcel Service Inc. on Monday, 16 days before their current contract was set to expire.

A south Georgia woman initially charged with murdering her disabled son pleaded guilty on Monday to a lesser charge of cruelty to children after a psychologist testified that she is severely mentally disabled.

Montgomery County authorities said Monday that a Georgia priest who allegedly sexually abused a Gaithersburg boy in the 1970s while at a Washington seminary may have had other victims in Maryland and Georgia.

Former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell started his new radio talk show Monday morning on WAOK 1380-AM.

A Macon woman, who was once a noted success story in a national welfare-to-work program, has been killed in a car accident.

An Atlanta police officer shot and killed an 18-year-old Decatur man who rammed into him with a sport utility vehicle.

Police say a man found stabbed to death at a Chicopee truck stop is a truck driver from Atlanta, Georgia.

Home Depot will repurchase up to two billion dollars of company shares with its stock at a three-year low.