Ken Stanford

UPS said the rough holiday shipping season means its fourth-quarter profit will be smaller than expected.

A member of a metro Atlanta school board has proposed withholding graduation tickets and more from parents who are uninvolved in their children's educations.

Georgia lawmakers have agreed to move up the state primary to May 20, and the bill now heads to the governor for his signature.

Hall County State Court Solicitor Stephanie Woodard plans to seek re-election this year.

U.S. home construction slowed in December but ended 2013 with the best showing since the housing bubble burst.

Four states - Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas - would again have to get approval from the Justice Department before making any changes in the way they hold elections under a bipartisan bill introduced Thursday to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court struck down as unconstitutional.

It's no secret that smoking causes lung cancer. But what about diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, erectile dysfunction? Fifty years into the war on smoking, scientists still are adding diseases to the long list of cigarettes' harms - even as the government struggles to get more people to kick the habit.

Sen. Tom Coburn has announced he will resign at the end of the current session of Congress, nearly two years before his term is scheduled to end.