Kevin West

A lack of college talent is forcing scouting directors to concentrate on high school players in the baseball draft. Today the Braves selected Parkview High standout Jeff Francoeur in the first round.

Two former Richmond County vice officers have been sentenced to prison terms for extorting money from a strip club owner and accepting bribes.

States' income tax revenue fell by more than a fifth in April compared with a year before, a bad sign for governors and lawmakers who already struggled to balance this year's budgets.

A guard at Georgia State Prison has died of injuries he received in a beating by a violent maximum-security inmate, officials said.

Water use in most of metro Atlanta peaked over the weekend right along with the mercury - which hit 95 degrees.

Florida fired men's track coach Doug Brown on Monday and replaced him with associate coach Mike Holloway.

Anthony Witherspoon was fired Monday as Clark Atlanta University's basketball coach after a 10-15 season in which seven losses resulted from the use of two ineligible players.

Developers in ever-expanding metro Atlanta are reacting cautiously to information that the region's water resources may be tapped out more than two decades early.

Augusta fire officials are hoping to reduce the incidences of child arson in the city with an anti-arson program targeted at young people.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman outside a convenience store in southwest Atlanta yesterday.