Ken Stanford

More people were forced from their homes outside the posh central Idaho ski town of Ketchum as a wildfire stoked by strong winds made a push to the north.

On the world's largest naval base, sailors can pull into a gas station and buy a bottle of liquor before sunrise. But as the Navy works to curb alcohol abuse in a push reduce sexual assaults and other crimes, the days of picking up a bottle of Kahlua along with a cup of coffee are coming to an end.

Adam LaRoche's 15th-inning homer gave the Washington Nationals an 8-7 win over the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.

Fall classes begin Monday on each of the four University of North Georgia (UNG) campuses - and special events are planned over the next two weeks.

Five decades after President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot and long after official inquiries ended, thousands of pages of investigative documents remain withheld from public view. The contents of these files are partially known - and intriguing - and conspiracy buffs are not the only ones seeking to open them for a closer look.

Often criticized as too prescriptive and all-consuming, standardized tests have support among parents, who view them as a useful way to measure both students' and schools' performances, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll.

The Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) program will hold a series of public comment hearings statewide on proposed VR policy revisions.

A wind-driven wildfire burned its way through sage and pine trees near the Idaho mountain resort community of Sun Valley as sheriff's deputies expanded evacuation orders to 1,600 homes