Ken Stanford

With 44 percent of registered voters going to the polls, Mike Huckabee edges Mitt Romney by one percent in Hall County Tuesday, while on the Democratic ballot, Barack Obama squeaked past Hillary Clinton.

Resentment boiled to the surface Tuesday in the state House when members applauded a lawmaker who stood to complain after he was punished for defying Speaker Glenn Richardson on a key vote.

Highlights from preliminary results of exit polling in the Super Tuesday primary states for The Associated Press and television networks:

Mike Huckabee won the first contest declared on Super Tuesday, picking up all 18 national delegates awarded at West Virginia's state GOP convention.

A federal appeals court Tuesday threw out an agreement that Georgia reached with the Army Corps of Engineers for water rights to Lake Lanier, handing Alabama and Florida a major victory in a water war lasting for almost two decades.

Officials with Barack Obama's campaign are investigating complaints that elderly people in Atlanta have been receiving calls offering to allow them to vote by phone in the Super Tuesday presidential primary.

Across the nation, voters are taking part in, and in many cases marveling at, a political day like none in American history a 24-state, coast-to-coast scramble of presidential primaries and caucuses.

A federal judge in Atlanta has denied bond for four soldiers stationed in Lumpkin County, saying that they had been prepared to commit ``unspeakable acts of violence.''

By mid-morning today, a random check of select precincts around Hall County showed, for the most part, a steady stream of voters.

Fallout over the state Department of Transportation board vote is continuing, with three more Georgia House members - including Doug Collins of Gainesville - losing leadership positions for voting against House Speaker Glenn Richardson's choice to head the board.