A key panel rejected smallpox vaccinations for the general public Thursday, instead urging states to create teams of first responders to bioterrorism and vaccinate them against the deadly virus.
Republic Technologies International, a steel company in bankruptcy, said Thursday that it has sold a plant in Georgia to AmeriSteel Corporation for seven million dollars.
A plane bound for Atlanta and Washington, D.C. was delayed for more than an hour Thursday at Jacksonville International Airport when three people bypassed a security checkpoint.
Authorities were back at a crematory in northwest Georgia this morning after lawyers touring the site found more bones, hair and tissue on the site where hundreds of rotting corpses were found discarded earlier this year.
South Carolina Governor Jim Hodges' last-minute appeal to stop plutonium shipments from entering South Carolina was denied Thursday by the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, a court order shows.
Tom Ridge said Thursday that the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shouldn't be part of a massive reorganization of agencies into one homeland security department.
A woman who shot her two sons to death in a nursing home because they were suffering from Huntington's disease has widespread support in Spalding County.
