Kevin West

The Athens Banner-Herald, Rome News-Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Community Newspapers Holiding Incorporated's South Georgia Group were honored Thursday for their contributions to The Associated Press in Georgia.

J.K. Murphy, editor of the Gwinnett Daily Post, was elected president of the Georgia Associated Press News Council at the newspaper group's annual meeting Thursday at Jekyll Island.

Scientists at the University of Georgia, working with an agriculture biotechnology company, have produced three little pigs cloned from the skin tissue cells of a boar.

The Bishop of Savannah said Thursday that his diocese fully cooperated with a civil investigation of a priest arrested for child abuse.

The Atlanta Braves placed right-handed pitcher Albie Lopez on the 15-day disabled list Thursday with tendinitis in his pitching shoulder.

Two Eastern European men arrested in April in Columbia have pleaded innocent to charges of harboring hundreds of illegal immigrants.

A Bibb County coroner's jury has ruled that a February car accident that killed an inmate on a work detail was an accident.

Seventy-five people in Wisconsin suffered severe diarrhea, fever and cramps after drinking unpasteurized milk.

Northeast Georgia Medical Center's Fit for Life Wellness Services hosted the 17th annual June Bug Jog, Saturday, June 15. The 5K race began at The Rehabilitation Institute in Sherwood Plaza.

LSU track star Walter Davis and Alabama gymnast Andree Pickens have been named the Southeastern Conference Male and Female Athletes of the Year.