Kevin West

City officials said a newly expanded, 24-bed jail will not be used despite a $1.8 million renovation. The reason: an existing contract with neighboring Roswell is more cost effective, Alpharetta City Manager Bob Regus said.

As Jason Carter surveyed the opulent surroundings of Pretoria at the start of a two-year stint in the Peace Corps, he wondered whether the volunteer agency was really needed in South Africa.

A 7-year-old boy who was injured when a stolen tour bus crashed into a large sign in a parking lot died Sunday night, police said.

A U.S. Forest Service (USFS) employee has been charged with setting that massive Colorado forest fire.

A small group of health experts will gather in Atlanta this week to answer a question that carries critical weight in the new age of bioterrorism: Who should have access to vaccine against deadly smallpox?

Aggrieved men across America are attacking a centuries-old legal doctrine that has forced them to pay child support even after they belatedly discover they are not the child's biological father.

The 2.5-million member Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) chose a Palestinian-American as moderator, its top elected official.

Yaron Peters hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in the ninth and South Carolina eliminated Nebraska from the College World Series with a 10-8 win Sunday.

Some residents of coast Glynn County are tired of the fancy, wooden street signs often a trademark of upscale developments and want to force everyone to use the easy-to-read green standards.

Columbia County officials are investigating the death of a Grovetown man who was run over by a train.