Ken Stanford

J.C. Smith announced plans Monday to run for Hall County Clerk of Courts.

Security officials have extinguished the Olympic torch for a second time amid heavy protests during the torch relay in Paris.

More than 10 million gallons of putrid grease and water sit untouched at a shuttered waste recycling plant as the cleanup process for the facility remains mired in red tape.

Hospitals, schools and the assembly line at an airplane factory look like pretty good places to be with a recession looming and unemployment rising. Construction workers, real estate agents and auto workers aren't expected to fare as well.

The U.S. military says rocket or mortar attacks against the U.S.-protected Green Zone and a military base elsewhere in Baghdad have killed three American service members and wounded 31.

President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to overcome sharp differences over a U.S. missile defense system, closing their seven-year relationship Sunday still far apart on an issue that has separated them from the beginning.

Matt Olson hit a game-winning RBI single and Georgia beat South Carolina 1-0, then the Bulldogs rallied in the second game of a doubleheader to win 5-3 on Saturday night.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84.

Family members disclosed Saturday that longtime Georgia Bulldog radio announcer Larry Munson had successful surgery on Friday to remove blood clots on his brain.

It'll be Memphis and Kansas in Monday's men's NCAA basketball championship game.