Kevin West

A former Lock Haven University football player was being held in Clinton County jail after being extradited from Georgia on murder and kidnapping charges.

Southern Company has agreed to purchase 210,000 Georgia customer accounts from bankrupt natural gas marketer The New Power Company for nearly $60 million in a deal that puts electric giant Southern in the retail gas business.

A congressman's effort to save endangered buildings at historically black colleges and universities gained momentum Wednesday when two senators agreed to take up the cause.

A tall, soft-spoken Southern educator was inaugurated as the tenth chancellor of Georgia's university system Wednesday in a colorful cap-and-gown ceremony at the Capitol.

Health officials said a South Georgia boy died Wednesday of a form of meningitis and his sister remained hospitalized in Tallahassee, Florida with the same illness.

Radium Springs, a Creek Indian gathering place and one of Georgia's seven natural wonders, normally gushes sapphire-blue water from caverns linked to an aquifer far below.

New York state officials said Wednesday that a lawsuit accusing state police and prosecutors of covering up the improper handling of their investigation into the 1989 slaying of a family of four has no merit.

South Carolina center fielder and second baseman Justin Harris was accepted in a pre-trial intervention program Wednesday after being arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and public drunkenness earlier this week.

The Board of Regents was told Wednesday that tougher admissions standards for Georgia's colleges and universities have pushed average SAT scores up for entering freshmen and the need for remedial work down.

William Adolph Barq, a third-generation president of Barq's Incorporated, maker of the nation's top-selling root beer, has died of cardiac arrest at his home in Biloxi, Mississippi.