The first woman to win a statewide public office in Georgia and a former candidate for governor, Linda Schrenko is on her way to a halfway house. She had embezzled money meant for handicapped children.

...activists suspicious of a one-time moderate who backed abortion rights.Two years ago in Minnesota, establishment candidates for governor were swept aside in the primary, and tea party-backed insurgents for governor and the Senate in Colorado won...

...refer a complaint to an administrative hearing against former Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine, a Republican candidate for governor in 2009. The complaint alleged Oxendine's campaign took $120,000 in contributions in 2009 from 10 Alabama-based...

...Hewlett-Packard picks Whitman as new CEOHewlett-Packard Co. has named Meg Whitman, the former eBay CEO and California candidate for governor, as its new CEO, pushing aside Leo Apotheker after just 11 months on the job. Whitman got the top spot because...

...E, Post Office Box 919, Evans, GA 30809.To avoid a runoff, one of seven Republicans and seven Democratic candidates for governor must get 50 percent of the votes plus one, making a runoff likely.Also contested on the Democratic and Republican...

...designation. Under the revised legal interpretation, he could have given all of that money to Nathan Deal, the candidate for governor he had endorsed.Gov. Sonny Perdue could have given his former deputy chief of staff, Karen Handel, $800...

...California's ban on homosexual marriage, but Georgia politicians vow to fight it here.All three major-party candidates for governor said Thursday they favor keeping the gay-marriage ban in Georgia's constitution. Voters approved it overwhelmingly...

GOP candidates for governor clashed on how sharply they would attempt to limit abortion and whether the state could jettison its income tax.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Augusta Chronicle asked the leading Democratic candidates for governor to address some of the top issues of the day. Here are some of Thurbert Baker's answers:Q: The state budget is expected to...

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Augusta Chronicle asked the leading Democratic candidates for governor to address some of the top issues of the day. Here are some of David Poythress' answers:Q: The state budget is expected to...