Kevin West

The four-year drought that has the Southeast in its grip means dents, scrapes and busted propellers for hundreds of boats plying the waters on the lakes on the South Carolina-Georgia border.

The HOPE scholarship is draining Georgia lottery funds and soon will need cash from the state's general fund, Georgia's higher education chief warned Tuesday.

A mother has been charged with misdemeanor child deprivation after leaving her 11-month-old baby alone in a minivan on one of the hottest days of the year.

Wilkesboro-based Lowe's is beginning to gain ground on the longtime market leader.

A Grady County man has admitted to beating his own mother to death.

The Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association will ask a federal judge to order DeKalb County to set aside $30 million for home and office builders who say they were overcharged for building permits.

The board of the successor to the controversial U.S. Army School of the Americas declared independence Tuesday after concluding its first meeting, which was punctuated by debate over human rights abuses in Latin America.

A jury was selected Tuesday in the murder trial of a Fayette County man accused of killing his wife who disappeared five years ago.

Firefighters responding to a blaze at a south Atlanta apartment unit Tuesday found the bodies of a man and a woman, both apparently shot in the head.

Charges were reduced Tuesday for a man accused of fatally shooting two Marietta men in a parking lot at the Phipps Plaza mall in Buckhead.