Ken Stanford

The 16th Annual Friends of the Parks Butterfly Release is planned Sunday, May 20, at Wilshire Trails Park.

Schools should be a cornerstone of the nation's obesity battle, but to trim Americans' waistlines, changes are needed everywhere people live, work, play and learn, a major new report says.

A recent AAA Consumer Pulse survey shows the majority of Georgia residents (70%) plan to take a summer vacation of four days or more between May and September

U.S. bomb experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida improvised explosive device, a top Obama administration counterterrorism official said Tuesday, to determine if it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane.

Two commencement speakers at Piedmont College on Saturday gave the 476 new graduates the message that if they take steps to

The national debate over gay marriage turns its attention South on Tuesday, as North Carolina could be on the verge of becoming the next state to pass a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman.

The U.S. Border Patrol on Tuesday unveiled its first national strategy in eight years, a period in which the number of agents more than doubled and apprehensions of people entering illegally from Mexico dropped to a 40-year low.

The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday.

President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny.

President Barack Obama's election-year vagueness on gay marriage is coming under fresh scrutiny.