COLUMBUS, Ga. - Andrew Bissett Speed, resident of Spring Harbor of Green Island, Columbus, GA., retired Vice President of the Georgia Power Company died Monday September 17, 2012. Graveside services will be held 2:00 P.M. Thursday, September 20,

Mike Carrington, the Thomson High School football announcer and McDuffie County development director, died Saturday at age 51.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Robert Stanford Stan Woodhurst, Jr., FAIA passed away in Augusta, GA on Tuesday, April 24, 2012. He was 90 years old and died peacefully in the mid-century modernist home he designed for himself and his family. A memorial service will

The Augusta region's main suburb wants to add retirement living to its portfolio in addition to being a good place to raise a family and go to school.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Those who live and work in the region where an ivory-billed woodpecker was reportedly spotted are used to people doubting the bird's discovery - they've heard it before.

In the small Oklahoma town of Checotah, ranchers who gather at Katy's Cafe for breakfast usually talk about cattle prices or whether the crappie are biting at Lake Eufaula.

BURNETTOWN -- The 1950s came back to life Friday night as the Midland Valley Chamber of Commerce re-created a bygone era when Elvis was king and bebop was the thing.

FORKS, Wash. --- Pounding rain and heavy mist are constant in this timber town where logging's decline left a graveyard of rusting timber mills and unemployment. Businesses shut down. Families started to drift away. Until an unlikely cast of vampires breathed new life into the town.

CODY, Wyo. - Gail Nace can't help but smile, talking about Hells Angels and the business they'll bring her downtown bar when they ride into town this week for a major gathering.

A plan to grow a crop of more qualified workers for area manufacturers from Columbia County schools has yet to bear fruit.