DAHLONEGA -– For the second straight week and first time in school history, the North Georgia softball team was selected as the No. 1 team in the land in consecutive weeks, this time receiving all 16 first-place votes to become the unanimous team atop the NFCA Division II Top 25 poll. read more..

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — The 20-year-old woman who has accused Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault plans on returning to Georgia College and State University next week. Her attorney said the woman took a week off from read more..

Maryland state police say a man accused of bludgeoning his doctor wife with a hammer has been extradited from Georgia. Anthony Soligny, 33, of New Windsor was arrested last week after a deputy spotted his truck on Interstate 85 in Franklin County, Ga., northeast of Atlanta. Police say he is now read more..

Still, five states reported record-high joblessness in January: California, at 12.5 percent; South Carolina, 12.6 percent; Florida, 11.9 percent; North Carolina, 11.1 percent; and Georgia, 10.4 percent. Michigan’s unemployment rate is still the read more..

ATLANTA — Georgia’s top lawyer says the state must hand over $18 million in disputed sales taxes to local governments. The opinion from Attorney General Thurbert Baker was obtained by The Associated Press. It comes in the midst of a state budget read more..

President Saakashvili said on March 9, that Georgia was moving towards becoming “Switzerland of this region with elements of Singapore.” Speaking at an opening ceremony of a new building for Turkish-Georgian school in Batumi, Saakashvili mainly spoke of education system. read more..

Georgia quarterback Zach Mettenberger was arrested during the weekend in Remerton on five charges including underage consumption, disorderly conduct and possession of a fake I.D. read more..

One of the trio of combatants battling for Georgia’s starting quarterback job was arrested over the weekend on a bevy of charges, the Macon Telegraph is reporting. read more..

It’s hard to pound the ball inside against Georgia Tech, thanks to shot blockers Gani Lawal and Derrick Favors. read more..

Alton Brown, author and host of Food Network’s ” Good Eats ” will be the speaker at the University of Georgia’s spring undergraduate commencement exercises at 6:30 p.m. May 8 in Sanford Stadium. read more..

Anti-smoking advocates say they know a way to help fill Georgia’s $1 billion budget shortfall: hike the tax on cigarettes by $1. read more..

The students in Michael Dubson’s physics class at the University of Colorado fell silent as a multiple choice question flashed on a screen, sending them scrambling for small white devices on their desks. Within seconds, a monitor on Dubson’s desk read more..

The agreement covers about 30,000 CWA members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The contract expired on August 8, 2009 and employees have worked under the terms of the read more..

(AP) — NORCROSS, Ga., March 8, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-Comverge, Inc. (Nasdaq:COMV), a leading provider of comprehensive smart grid, demand management, and energy efficiency solutions, today announced fourth quarter and full-year financial and read more..

in everyone. There’s no better time to get out and enjoy a ride on the SAM Shortline Excursion Train than right now. SAM Shortline Excursion Train Stops and Nearby Attractions SAM Shortline runs from Cordele, Georgia to Archery, Georgia. Each train read more..

Bita Honarvar, bhonarvar@ajc.com Jim and Florrie Corley have lived in this home on Kennesaw Avenue in Marietta for more than 50 years. The house, built in 1882, is in what may become Marietta’s first locally controlled historic district. Today read more..

PR Log (Press Release) – Mar 08, 2010 – NORCROSS, Georgia – “Ashworthy Causes”, Ashworth College’s (http://www.ashworthcollege.edu) on-going community outreach program, has kicked off its latest fundraising initiative, Great American Bake read more..

Many if not most Raiders fans are unhappy with JaMarcus Russell, believing the quarterback is too complacent, too poorly conditioned and too careless with the football. Many if not most 49ers fans are displeased with Alex Smith, having concluded he’s read more..

Ricky Blanton has watched Tasmin Mitchell play for LSU for five years now. But he started watching Mitchell develop as a player and a person long before that. “I met Tasmin when he was in seventh grade,” said Blanton, the former Tigers star and read more..

Left-hander Logan Darnell tossed a complete-game shutout and the University of Kentucky baseball team turned four double plays as the 23rd-ranked Wildcats beat No.?19 San Diego 6-0 in a tournament hosted by San Diego State. Darnell (2-0) allowed read more..

MACON, Ga. — Micah Williams scored 20 points and Justin Tubbs hit two free throws with 18.2 seconds left to help East Tennessee State hold off Kennesaw State 69-64 on Friday night in the Atlantic Sun Conference semifinals. The Owls’ Markeith read more..

DULUTH, Ga. — En route to finishing tied for third in the Southeastern Conference’s regular-season standings, the LSU women’s basketball team went 9-1 in games decided by double digits. In other action, the Lady Tigers went 0-6. On Friday night read more..

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco wears its environmental consciousness like a green badge of honor. Residents separate and recycle their food scraps. Streets close to cars so people can walk and bike them. A city department even gives away “high-quality read more..

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The world’s bill for the Haitian earthquake is large and growing — now $2.2 billion — and so is the criticism about how the money is being spent. A half-million homeless received tarps and tents; far more are still waiting read more..

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP)—Jasmine Thomas scored 21 points and hit five 3-pointers to help ninth-ranked Duke beat Maryland 66-64 Friday in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament quarterfinals. Joy Cheek added 14 points for the top-seeded Blue Devils read more..

Huston, 24, of Athens, Ga.; died Monday in Bala Murghab, Afghanistan, when insurgents attacked their unit with small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades. Both were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade read more..

Tigers manager Jim Leyland says Zumaya, who has had repeated shoulder injuries since pitching in 62 games in 2006, was having a hard team keeping the ball up. Leyland says Zumaya needs to keep the ball up in the strike zone rather than down, to be read more..

Gary, scheduled for execution Dec. 16, received a stay from the Georgia Supreme Court four hours before he was scheduled to be executed. The high court ordered a Muscogee County court to hold a hearing on defense attorneys’ request for DNA testing read more..

DULUTH, Ga. — Ashley Houts scored 18 points and delivered a key late defensive play to help No. 22 Georgia beat Alabama 73-66 on Thursday night to survive a first-round scare in the Southeastern Conference tournament. With Georgia leading by two read more..

Jersey Journal file photo The Mega Millions jackpot rises to $133 million for Friday’s drawing. The Mega Millions jackpot is expected to be $113 million for Friday night’s drawing. Though there wasn’t a top-winner who matched all the numbers in read more..

U.S. Rep. Nathan Deal announced Monday that he will leave Congress to concentrate on his bid to be Georgia’s next governor. “I firmly believe that now is the season for me to devote my full energies to the campaign for governor,” Deal said read more..

The president made many of the same points he’s made over the last year-plus of debate, appealing to frustration with insurance companies. “I don’t believe we can afford to leave life-and-death decisions about health care to the discretion of read more..

Job: Oncology nurse in the outpatient clinic at Emory Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. Barry Williams, Special Sandra Taylor is an oncology nurse in the outpatient clinic at Emory Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta. What I do: “I treat cancer read more..

Sage Hospitality Resources and Legacy Property Group announced the appointment of Nanci Sherman as Chief Experience Officer of Glenn Hotel in Atlanta. Drawing upon nearly three decades of luxury hospitality experience, Sherman will oversee all read more..

DAYTON — Montgomery County Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck Jr. has agreed to investigate possible fraud in the county-funded feeding program run by the Rev. Raleigh Trammel, according to Montgomery County Administrator Deborah Feldman. Feldman said she read more..

Authorities have smashed one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers, a data vacuum that stole credit cards and online banking credentials from as many as 12.7 million poisoned PCs. The “botnet” of infected computers included PCs read more..

A Domino’s deliveryman in Georgia was robbed recently by two suspects brandishing a pistol and demanding chicken wings, not pizza. “Give me the wings,” one suspect reportedly said. Domino’s knew its pizza quality needed some improvement. read more..

Rep. Charles Rangel stepped aside as chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday, saying he was temporarily giving up the gavel because he didn’t want his ethics controversy to jeopardize election prospects for fellow Democrats read more..

Georgia O’Keeffe, the undisputed doyenne of American painting and a leader, with her husband, Alfred Stieglitz, of a crucial phase in the development and dissemination of American modernism, died yesterday at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, N.M. She was 98 years old, and had lived in Santa Fe since 1984, when she moved from her longtime home and studio in Abiquiu, N.M. read more..

March 1 (Bloomberg) — Georgia’s Municipal Electric Authority plans to borrow more than $2.5 billion this week to help finance its share of two nuclear reactors, which would be the first licensed in the U.S. since the Three Mile Island reactor accident in 1979. read more..

Georgia and Russia reopened their only direct border crossing on Monday, more than three years after it was closed amid rising tension that erupted into war in 2008. read more..

ATLANTA - If the University System of Georgia’s Board of Regents weren’t already concerned enough about mounting cuts to the budget year that begins July 1, now comes the prospect that funding from bonds for construction projects could also be limited one day. read more..