Kevin West

Governor Barnes tapped an old friend from the Legislature, Democrat Earleen Sizemore of Sylvester, to fill a vacancy on the Public Service Commission, giving the utility-regulating panel a 3-2 Democratic majority.

A former bank executive at the Cumberland National Bank in St. Marys has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for embezzling money from customer loan accounts.

The Loganville City Council is one member short because a council member is in jail, and the remaining members have decided they should all be subject to random drug tests.

Though he has been police chief of Macon for a year, Rodney Monroe was not eligible to make an arrest, carry a gun or even wear a police uniform.

A 63-year-old woman accused of fatally shooting her adult sons in a Spalding County nursing home will be able to attend their funeral.

Family and friends are reacting to the death of a Gainesville man following a fight near an Atlanta concert and changes are planned at concerts in downtown Atlanta as a result of John Stump's death.

A DeKalb County police officer shot a robbery suspect during a pre-dawn chase Wednesday.

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

Enron Corp. spinoff NewPower Holdings Inc., which supplies gas and electricity to about 600,000 customers in nine states, including Georgia, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday.

The new ``soft-wall'' technology used successfully in the Indianapolis 500 will get its first NASCAR race test on the same track, although wide use of the system is not expected for at least a year.