Kevin West

South Carolina has joined a settlement agreement with two Georgia life insurance companies that are accused of charging black customers more than white customers for insurance policies.

Brigadier General Janet Hicks has been chosen to command the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, the first woman to head a major military installation in Georgia

Samuel ``Rickey'' Rowe, a close friend of former Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, whose R&D Testing and Drilling Inc. won more than $17 million in city work while Campbell was in office, has filed for bankruptcy.

U.S. Interior Secretary Gale North will sign over the 120-year-old Tybee Island lighthouse to the community's historical society next week, ending a controversy over its ownership.

Residents in Newton County are waking up to a new water restriction Thursday morning.

Authorities have charged three men with trying to steal anhydrous ammonia from a gas company to make methamphetamine.

South Carolinians for decades have embraced just about any industry that could bring jobs to the countryside. But now that attitude is changing, as illustrated by South Carolina's plutonium standoff.

Authorities said an Atlanta police officer who was showing his girlfriend how a gun worked was killed Wednesday when the gun discharged.

A woman who disappeared last fall along with her 6-year-old daughter has been found dead, her body deposited in a landfill.

Attendance at the annual telecommunications conference - which ends Thursday - is down 25 to 30 percent short of the 53,000 who attended the show last year.