Kevin West

Two city employees have been fired and more than a dozen others reprimanded for spending too much time surfing the Internet on unofficial business.

A new poll has found that 71 percent of Georgians support raising the state excise cigarette tax by 75 cents.

The closing of the Medical University of South Carolina's 10-bed adult burn unit this month will mean badly burned patients will have to go to an Augusta hospital for care.

The Braves are confident that they can sign top draft choice Jeff Francoeur, who could demand a signing bonus of about $2 million.

The police force of this small Newton County town has been cut in half with the resignations of three officers and a leave of absence by the chief.

Clark Atlanta athletics director Brenda Edmond has named former assistant men's basketball coach Larry Nolley as interim coach to replace Anthony Witherspoon, who was fired on Monday.

The judge who will hear the murder trial of former DeKalb County Sheriff Sidney Dorsey established rules Wednesday for media representatives who will cover the trial.

Americans made more than 823 million visits to the doctor in 2000, a figure that is steadily rising as baby boomers age and the general population swells, the government said Wednesday.

Fans of the writer Erskine Caldwell, who shocked readers with his Depression-era depiction of abject Southern poverty and social injustice, are mounting a campaign to have the Coweta County native honored with a postage stamp.

In the early Cold War '50s, people around here welcomed the opening of ``the bomb plant'' along the Savannah River.