Posted: 10:31 AM The commander of Robins Air Force Base says the middle Georgia base is ready for its part in a larger reorganization within the military branch.

Posted: 10:28 AM An Etowah County judge has acquitted two lawyers and a third man on trial on extortion charges.

Posted: 10:27 AM The unemployment rate in Georgia held steady at 9.2 percent in August.

Posted: 4:42 PM An Opp man accused of killing his 4-year-old nephew has been sentenced to life in prison.

Posted: 9:27 AM An 11-year-old in southwest Florida stopped a school bus after its driver became ill and lost control.

Posted: 9:25 AM Dothan police say the mother of a missing teenager is now believed to be assisting in the girl's alleged abduction by the youth's stepfather.

Posted: 9:23 AM A Florida Panhandle county says one person has died after becoming infected with West Nile virus.

Posted: 9:21 AM Authorities in southwest Georgia say a sex offender wanted in Florida is in custody after he led police on an hour-long chase before crashing in a ditch.

Posted: 9:19 AM A Columbus jury is deliberating after the trial of an Alabama man charged with stabbing the local school superintendent to death 20 years ago.

Posted: 2:44 PM U.S. Coast Guard crews are still looking for a 21-year-old Tennessee woman who fell off a cruise ship into the Atlantic Ocean off Florida.

Posted: 11:32 AM A central Florida man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for a fatal crash that occurred as he was fleeing police.

Posted: 11:29 AM Space shuttle Endeavour apparently doesn't want to leave home.

Posted: 11:26 AM Central Florida authorities say a 14-year-old was behind the wheel in a multi-vehicle crash that killed her mother and 8-year-old sister.

Posted: 11:24 AM Officials say an exotic pest is killing hundreds of trees in the Tampa Bay-area.

Posted: 10:41 AM Authorities say they've arrested a teenager in a shooting death after he went to a hospital in Mobile seeking treatment.

Posted: 10:40 AM Military authorities are designating the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base as a stand-a-lone headquarters.

Posted: 10:37 AM The beginning of space shuttle Endeavour's final flight to California has been postponed because of weather along the flight route.

Posted: 5:29 PM A Florida man arrested after a nationwide search for the "Bucket List Bandit" has been ordered held in an Oklahoma jail.

Posted: 5:27 PM Two of the three siblings accused of robbing a Valdosta bank during a cross-country crime spree that started in Florida and ended with a shootout in Colorado plan to enter into plea deals with prosecutors.

Posted: 5:24 PM A Miami police officer stopped after a state trooper clocked him going 120 miles per hour on Florida's Turnpike has been fired.

Posted: 5:22 PM The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has halted distribution of controlled substances such as oxycodone painkillers at a Walgreens Corp. center in Florida.

Posted: 12:27 PM Most of Alabama's request for $9.4 million in federal assistance following Hurricane Isaac would pay for beach repair or sand removal.

Posted: 10:41 AM The University of Texas has issued an alert on its website ordering an evacuation "due to threats on campus."

Posted: 10:39 AM Federal prosecutors have charged five men with raping and pimping out teenage girls in Atlanta-area hotels.

Posted: 10:38 AM Police say a street sweeper was crushed to death while trying to unclog his machine in the parking lot of Jacksonville's Regency Square Mall.