Ken Stanford

Tropical Storm Claudette, which rolled into Florida during the night and then into Alabama, could bring heavy rains to parts of Georgia, especially southwestern and west Georgia... and the rest of the state could get a soaking, as well.

The search resumes at 9:00 this morning for 38-year-old Kristi Cornwell, the missing Blairsville woman who disappeared Tuesday night and is believed to have been kidnapped.

Tropical Storm Claudette made landfall on the Florida Panhandle near Fort Walton Beach early Monday, making it the first named storm to hit the U.S. mainland this year.

Apparently ready to abandon the idea, President Barack Obama's health secretary said Sunday a government alternative to private health insurance is "not the essential element" of the administration's health care overhaul.

U.S. Rep. David Scott fielded dozens of questions during a public meeting on health care reform Saturday but there were no confrontations similar to one that occurred at a meeting earlier in the week.

Georgia Tech backup quarterback Jaybo Shaw - a former standout at Flowery Branch High School - has broken his collarbone during a scrimmage.

Gainesville State College announces plans for the first three of six unpaid furlough days mandated by the state Board of Regents, while North Georgia College and State University continues to consider its options and Georgia Gwinnett works on its schedule.

The Georgia Department of Transportation plans on paving part of Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive in Jefferson and the public will get to have its say on the matter Tuesday.

Prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty against three people charged in an Arizona home invasion that that targeted an immigrant family and left a little girl and her father dead.

Consumer prices were flat in July as energy costs retreated following a big surge in June.