Kevin West

Authorities say a Snellville man has been charged with animal cruelty after being accused of putting a Rottweiler puppy in a microwave and then stabbing it with a kitchen knife.

A Pasadena, California-based company has announced plans to invest over $2 million in it's Flowery Branch operation.

Miss Historic Southern Plains, Joan-Marie Burns, and Miss Spirit of Georgia, Brooke Anderson, were winners Thursday night in the second round of preliminaries of Miss Georgia 2002.

A man who admitted he raped and killed a 6-year-old boy told a judge he deserved to die for his crime.

State researchers are trying to determine what killed hundreds of fish and crabs in Chatham County.

About five dozen Pakistani nationals were interrogated in several cities across the nation in an FBI and Immigration and Naturalization Service sweep meant to uncover illegal immigrants.

A state transportation official says ozone alerts will be posted on message boards over major highways even if the Federal Highway Administration doesn't like it.

A former movie theater manager pleaded guilty Thursday to taking about $75,000 from an Alpharetta theater - the weekend of the ``Spiderman'' premiere.

Police arrested a homeless man in the 1999 murder and rape of a Fort Lauderdale woman after DNA linked him to the crime.

Gwinnett County authorities say they will not file charges against a cat breeder who had 34 dead and sick cats in her home in Duluth.