Ken Stanford

Sara Jane Moore, who took a shot at President Ford in a bizarre assassination attempt just 17 days after a disciple of Charles Manson tried to kill Ford, was paroled Monday after 32 years behind bars.

State and local authorities are investigating an apparent burglary and arson that left an Albany church heavily damaged.

The coldest temperatures in five years will greet participants in the 11th annual New Year's Day Polar Bear Swim in Gainesville Tuesday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other potential independent presidential candidates are joining prominent Republican and Democratic centrists at a meeting that will consider the merits of a third-party bid for the White House.

A fire that originated in a Chrstmas tree damaged a house in Buford Saturday night.

The federal government is investigating a shuttered waste recycling plant where a treatment pond caught fire three months ago.

The historice drought - and the outdoor water bans, water conservaton measures and record low lake levels it brought with it - tops the list of the biggest news stories in Georgia this year, according to members of the Associated Press in the state.

Lake Lanier is getting one of ten "mega-ramps" as part of the Go Fish Georgia program, according to an announcement from Gov. Perdue Friday.

With little prospect for an end to the drought, more and more lakeside homeowners are becoming more and more concerned as the level of Lake Lanier continues to drop.

Sales of new homes plunged last month to their lowest level in more than 12 years, a grim testament to the problems plaguing the housing sector.