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• DeKalb schools consider closing science center

  DECATUR, Ga. (AP) Members of the DeKalb County school board are recommending that the Fernbank Science Center and its planetarium be closed to help save money. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/Kq0QxQ ) that the center, near the Fernbank Museum of

  05/25/2012 6:11 PM

• Atlanta woman suing over mistaken arrest

  ATLANTA (AP) An Atlanta woman is suing a long list of defendants after she was arrested by mistake and spent 53 days in jail. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/KpR8LR ) that Teresa Culpepper filed the lawsuit Friday in Fulton County

  05/25/2012 5:07 PM

• Remains found in Kennesaw belong to missing man

  KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) Cobb County police say remains found this week in Kennesaw are those of a Calhoun man missing since August 2009. Sgt. Dana Pierce with the police department said investigators are trying to determine how Norris Milton Dove

  05/25/2012 4:04 PM

• Sen. Balfour faces contested Ga. GOP primary

  ATLANTA (AP) Two Republican challengers are running against state Sen. Don Balfour as he faces ethics complaints. Travis Bowden and Steve Ramey met the deadline Friday to qualify for the July 31 GOP primary ballot. Few leaders in the General

  05/25/2012 3:20 PM

• 6 Ga. congressmen draw opponents for July primary

  ATLANTA (AP) Six Georgia congressmen will have to defeat opponents from within their own parties this summer to keep their seats. As candidate qualifying for the 2012 elections in Georgia ended Friday, four Republicans and two Democrats had challengers sign

  05/25/2012 2:52 PM

• SC's Haley personally lobs accusation at speaker

  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is personally accusing the speaker of the House of meddling in an ethics investigation of her, a day after her staff did made the same charges. The Republican governor blasted Republican Speaker

  05/25/2012 12:51 PM

• Ga. Perimeter College to lay off about 185 workers

  ATLANTA (AP) The interim leader of Georgia Perimeter College says the school plans to lay off about 185 employees as part of a broader effort to cut spending. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports (http://bit.ly/JrPyep) that Georgia Perimeter Interim President Rob Watts

  05/25/2012 12:38 PM

• Spectators succumb to heat at graduation ceremony

  POWDER SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) Ambulances were called to a high school graduation ceremony near Atlanta Friday to treat spectators for heat-related symptoms. WSB-TV (http://bit.ly/JhMtsM) reports that at least two people were taken to a hospital. Cobb County school system officials

  05/25/2012 12:17 PM

• Man found on river bank later dies at hospital

  DULUTH, Ga. (AP) Rescuers searching for a man who wandered away from his suburban Atlanta subdivision spotted him by helicopter and found him face-down on a Chattahoochee River bank, but he later died at a hospital. Authorities describe Richard Chang

  05/25/2012 11:53 AM

• SC man gets 20 years in death of former minister

  ROCK HILL, S.C. (AP) A judge in Rock Hill has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for his part in the death of a former minister two years ago. The Herald of Rock Hill reports (http://bit.ly/Jvsvfw) that Circuit

  05/25/2012 11:23 AM