Ken Stanford

A Georgia death row inmate convicted of raping and strangling a 15-year-old girl is scheduled to be executed Tuesday.

Republican strength in this year's House and Senate races could, strangely enough, hurt the party's presidential chances by stalling the changes in style and policy advocated after Mitt Romney's defeat in the 2012 presidential campaign.

Casey Kasem,the radio host of "American Top 40" and voice of animated television characters like Scooby-Doo's sidekick Shaggy, died Sunday morning at a hospital in Gig Harbor, Washington. He was 82.

Hall County Fire Services has opened registration for Camp Lifesavers.

President Barack Obama said denying climate change is like arguing the moon is made of cheese, as he issued a call to action on global warming to Saturday's graduates of the University of California, Irvine.

It's crunch time at the Supreme Court, where the justices are racing to issue opinions in 17 cases over the next two weeks.

More than 1,000 students graduated from Lanier Technical College on Friday during the school's 48th graduation ceremony.