B.J. Williams

A Southwest Airlines flight bound for the main airport in Branson, Mo., instead touched down at a much smaller nearby airfield that gave the pilots only half as much room to stop.

A new government report says energy-related carbon dioxide pollution increased slightly last year after declining for several years in a row.

State lawmakers have returned to the Capitol, and the 2014 legislative session is underway.

Beam, the maker of Jim Beam and Maker's Mark bourbons along with other liquor brands, has agreed to be acquired by Japan's Suntory Holdings Ltd. for approximately $13.62 billion.

Two people were injured in a house fire in Braselton over the weekend, according to emergency officials from Jackson County.

Israel said its last farewell to Ariel Sharon on Monday with a state ceremony outside the parliament building before his flag-draped coffin was taken on a cross-country procession to its final resting place at his family home in the country's south.

Police say a man searching through garbage in a northwest Atlanta neighborhood was shot in the back.

Record rainfall may help the Florida Panhandle's ailing oyster industry recover from several years of wide-reaching droughts.

For the fifth straight day, hundreds of thousands of people in West Virginia had to wash, cook and brush their teeth with bottled water, but officials promised the ban on tap water that was tainted by a chemical spill would soon be lifted.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation plans autopsies on the bodies of two men who went missing after a Jan. 2 fishing trip.