Ken Stanford

Tropical Storm Chantal is racing toward the Lesser Antilles after forming in the Atlantic.

Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was hospitalized in critical but stable condition Monday, a day after showing symptoms consistent with a seizure, a person in close contact with the family said.

Egyptian soldiers and police guarding a military building opened fire on supporters of the ousted president Monday in bloodshed that claimed at least 40 lives, officials and witnesses said, and plunged the divided country deeper into crisis with calls by Islamists for all-out rebellion against the army.

The nation's top special operations commander ordered military files about the Navy SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden's hideout to be purged from Defense Department computers and sent to the CIA, where they could be more easily shielded from ever being made public.

The hackers who knocked out tens of thousands of South Korean computers simultaneously this year are out to do far more than erase hard drives, cybersecurity firms say: They also are trying to steal South Korean and U.S. military secrets with a malicious set of codes they've been sending through the Internet for years.

A federal safety official said Sunday the cockpit voice recorder from Asiana Flight 214 showed the jetliner received a warning that it could stall and tried to increase its speed before it crashed.

A Flowery Branch man is among the latest graduates of the Georgia Public Safety Training Center-Regional Police Academy in Athens - and at an age when many people are beginning to look down the road toward retirement, he's hoping his training leads to a new career.

The Pentagon's effort to account for tens of thousands of Americans missing in action from foreign wars is so inept, mismanaged and wasteful that it risks descending from "dysfunction to total failure," according to an internal study suppressed by military officials.

It may come as no surprise to learn that yearly rainfall to date in many parts of north Georgia is above normal so far this year. But, in some places, that surplus amounts to nearly a foot.