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A Georgia lawmaker pleaded guilty Tuesday to money laundering charges stemming from an undercover sting, and federal officials said the case had opened up a broader public corruption investigation in the state.
The Bush administration has violated Americans' basic human rights by blocking access to information and creating more government secrets than at any other time in U.S. history, former President Carter said Wednesday.
The wiry, graying drifter sought for several days in the New Year's Day disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering her in what authorities called a frustrated robbery attempt.
Freezing cold spread across the South and all the way to the Gulf Coast early Sunday, a day after the region got an unusual coating of snow.
Authorities said Friday they were seeking two more suspects in the killings of two police officers who were gunned down while working as off-duty security guards at an apartment complex.
Police arrested one man in the apparent ambush slaying of two officers at a crime-ridden apartment complex, and were still looking Thursday for other suspects, authorities said.
A hiker who disappeared from the northern Georgia woods on New Year's Day is dead, authorities now believe, and the man who was reportedly last seen with her has been charged with kidnapping.
Authorities said Saturday they believe a hiker who disappeared from the northern Georgia woods on New Year's Day is dead, and they charged the man who was reportedly last seen with her with kidnapping.
Police on Friday were questioning a man they called a "person of interest" in the disappearance of a 24-year-old hiker from a state park in northern Georgia.
For the third year in a row, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport has retained its title as the nation's busiest airport in terms of flights, according to preliminary government data released Wednesday.
After taking off their shoes, emptying their pockets and passing through the security checkpoint, travelers at some major U.S. airports can now roll up a sleeve and get a flu shot.
The long Thanksgiving weekend got a bit longer Monday for some people trying to leave the nation's largest city, where rain and poor visibility delayed some flights for hours.
Holiday travelers heading home after a long weekend of turkey, leftovers and holiday shopping found heavy crowds but most didn't find the delays they feared most.
Travelers heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend swarmed airports Sunday, but for the most part without the long lines and delays many had feared.
The Home Depot Inc. reported a 26.8 percent drop in third-quarter profits Tuesday as the deteriorating housing market put a crimp on home renovations.
During more than two years in state prison, Genarlow Wilson was confident that he would find justice and be set free. On Friday, the hopes of the young man who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager finally became reality: The state's highest court ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
During more than two years in state prison, Genarlow Wilson was confident that he would find justice and be set free.
A former high school football star given 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with another teenager was freed Friday by Georgia's highest court, which ruled that his sentence amounted to cruel and unusual punishment.
When Amy Lovell dropped off her son at school, she had to make sure the fifth-grader didn't dash off without his French horn. It was strapped to the back of her bicycle with a pair of bungee cords and rope.
About a third of U.S. adults with arthritis say the chronic condition — the nation's leading cause of disability — has limited their ability to work, the government said Thursday.
A suburban Atlanta couple was sentenced Tuesday to life plus 30 years in prison in the beating death of their 8-year-old son, a case that prompted authorities to raid the family's church because it supports corporal punishment.
Kathy Shields says podcasting is easy — so simple, in fact, that her kindergartners do it.
Catherine Hartman is familiar with the concrete barrier where a bus carrying a baseball team from a small Ohio college crashed last week. Five years ago, she and her husband were in an accident at the same spot after she mistook the exit ramp for a commuter lane.
A small college in Ohio was thrown into mourning Friday after a bus carrying the baseball team tumbled over the side of a highway overpass and slammed onto the pavement 30 feet below, killing four students, the driver and his wife.
A couple whose church supports corporal punishment locked their 8-year-old son in a box, forced him to spend hours in a closet and beat the boy, who died in 2003, a prosecutor told jurors Tuesday.
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