Ken Stanford

Oklahoma prosecutors have charged two teenage boys with first-degree murder in the random killing of an Australian baseball player as he jogged on a tree-lined road. A third teenager was charged with being an accessory.

Hasty Pope partner Jonathan Pope has been named a member of the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Trial Lawyers.

Ryan Dempster of the Boston Red Sox was suspended for five games and fined by Major League Baseball for intentionally hitting Yankees star Alex Rodriguez with a pitch last weekend.

Egypt's military-backed authorities on Tuesday arrested the supreme leader of the country's Muslim Brotherhood, dealing a serious blow to the Islamist group at a time when it is struggling to keep up its street protests against the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi in the face of a harsh government crackdown.

A military judge says she'll announce on Wednesday the sentence for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who gave reams of classified information to WikiLeaks.

The Georgia School Superintendents Association has named Dr. L.C. (Buster) Evans, superintendent of Forsyth County Schools, one of four finalists for 2014 Georgia Superintendent of the Year. The others include another superintendent from northeast Georgia - Rabun County's Matt Arthur.

Gainesville City Schools will begin the formal process of opening the new Mundy Mill elementary school site with a community meeting on September 12 at 6:00 p.m. at Gainesville Exploration Academy on McEver Road.

Work is underway on a geothermal field being installed on the site of the future Northeast Georgia Medical Center (NGMC) in South Hall.

Hall County Central Communications/E9-1-1 will conduct an audible test of the severe weather warning system Wednesday about 10:00 a.m.