Posted: 11:08 AM Lawyers for a man accused of gunning down a police officer in Athens are objecting to a shock device he's forced to wear during court appearances.

Posted: 5:29 PM The Florida State Board of Education has approved one virtual charter school application but rejected four others.

Posted: 5:28 PM Authorities say two people were killed and two others were injured in central Florida when one vehicle went into an oncoming lane and crashed into another.

Posted: 5:27 PM Florida is going ahead with privatizing prison health care services.

Posted: 5:26 PM Florida's jobless rate would be much higher if people weren't dropping out of the work force.

Updated: 5:35 PM Police say the gunman who fired into a crowded bar near the University of Alabama turned himself in to authorities.

Posted: 2:35 PM Marine mammal experts have released the first of three recovered manatees back into the wild after two were treated for lacerations caused by boat propellers in two different Florida locations.

Posted: 12:15 PM The U.S. Coast Guard will restrict boat traffic during the Republican National Convention in August.

Posted: 12:13 PM The FBI is investigating after needles were found in turkey sandwiches on Delta Air Lines flights from Amsterdam to the United States.

Posted: 12:12 PM Officials are investigating an incident in which dozens of arriving passengers on a flight from Cancun were allowed to bypass customs and head toward baggage claim at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

Posted: 11:59 AM Florida's agriculture chief says producers have voluntarily reduced sugar in chocolate and strawberry flavored milk sold in most of the state's schools.

Posted: 5:15 PM Two Florida panels will take another look at whether traffic court defendants should be warned against making self-incriminating statements.

Updated: 2:40 PM Water trails in Georgia, Missouri and Alabama are among three designated Monday by Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar to be National Water Trails.

Posted: 2:08 PM The state-backed Citizens Property Insurance Corp. says it needs to increase sinkhole rates by 254 percent next year.

Posted: 2:07 PM Adults wanting to earn an equivalent degree to a high school diploma in Florida may soon be able to take GED exams online in some parts of the state.

Posted: 12:57 PM The U.S. Coast Guard rescued four fishermen who had jumped into a life raft after their boat caught fire.

Posted: 4:12 PM The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Trayvon Martin is again asking for a new judge.

Posted: 4:10 PM A Florida prosecutor is urging jurors to reject the insanity defense for a 17-year-old boy accused in the kicking and stomping attack on a girl outside a middle school.

Posted: 4:09 PM A Tampa Bay area man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for a fatal drunken driving crash.

Posted: 2:06 PM Georgia and Florida residents living along the St. Marys River were hit by the same tropical storm last month, but only those from one state will be eligible for a federal disaster declaration.

Posted: 2:05 PM A Florida law that requires anyone caught with illegal drugs in their possession to prove their innocence has been upheld by the state Supreme Court.

Posted: 2:04 PM Following Gov. Nathan Deal's lead, Georgia's community health commissioner says the agency is holding off on a wholesale overhaul of the state's Medicaid program because of uncertainty at the federal level.

Posted: 11:35 AM U.S. authorities say a man suspected in a north Florida cattle theft has been arrested in Mexico.

Posted: 11:34 AM Initial tests show a possible link between a skull found under a house in Jasper and the case of two elderly women who've been missing for years.

Posted: 11:31 AM A teenager accused of hindering prosecution in a triple homicide in Auburn has received the maximum 20-year sentence in a separate killing in Montgomery.