Kevin West

Georgia appears to have dodged the financial problems that forced other states to balance budgets with deep cuts and higher taxes, but top money-managers aren't breaking out the champagne yet.

With weeds from Africa and mud-loving clams from Asia, Georgia's largest lake has become an ecological melting pot in its 50 years.

Janet Taylor wipes the sweat from her eyes and jots down the inscription from another of the concrete and sandstone grave markers that resemble a row of 24 crooked teeth.

Scientists are developing a handheld sensor they say would help save lives by quickly pinpointing the presence of a deadly E. coli strain and other harmful germs in food and drinks.

A handful of people from a Kansas church picketed outside The Augusta Chronicle Saturday, against what they say is a promotion of gay lifestyles by Morris Communications Company.

The Legislature spent much of last session passing laws in response to horrific events - terrorist attacks and the discovery of hundreds of discarded corpses at a north Georgia crematory.

A 38-year-old woman was stabbed multiple times in the chest at an abandoned building in Macon's Unionville neighborhood.

A two-year-old boy who ran into the street and into the path of a pickup truck was struck and killed Saturday afternoon, police said.

A jury awarded an Augusta woman who was falsely accused of theft a quarter of a million dollars the maximum amount in punitive damages.

A statewide task force formed to protect Georgia's deer population is recommending that the state close its borders to bringing in deer from other regions.