Ken Stanford

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has instructed the Senate's chief law enforcement officer to examine the Intelligence Committee's computers amid an escalating fight between the CIA and lawmakers over access to secret documents about the agency's interrogation tactics during the Bush administration.

An Army general who carried on a three-year affair with a captain and had two other inappropriate relationships with subordinates was reprimanded and docked $20,000 in pay Thursday, avoiding prison in one of the military's most closely watched courts-martial.

The Rev. Fred Phelps Sr., the fiery founder of a small Kansas church who led outrageous and hate-filled protests that blamed almost everything, including the deaths of AIDS victims and U.S. soldiers, on America's tolerance for gay people, has died. He was 84.

Democrats in the conservative Deep South are looking to recapture some old political magic in the 2014 elections. And, President Barack Obama's party is running candidates with familiar names.

Authorities are investigating a head-on collision between a pickup truck and a school bus in west Georgia that injured several students and both drivers.

A May 5 trial date has been set for Mark Antonio Taylor II who is accused of killing a Gainesville auto dealership employee.

A May trial date has been set for Mark Antonio Taylor II who is accused of killing a Gainesville auto dealership employee more than a year ago.

The mayor of Athens-Clarke County, who's seeking re-election this year, says possession and use of small amounts of marijuana should be legal.

Sales of U.S. existing homes slipped in February, the sixth decline in seven months as severe winter weather, rising prices and a tight supply of homes discouraged buyers.