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| State pensions lose $11 billion
The huge drop in the value of Georgia's two major state pension programs over the past 3 1/2 months, reflecting plummeting stock prices, could help make it easier for state officials to defend withholding retirees' cost-of-living raises next year.
 Bill Campbell gets out of prison today
Atlanta former two-term mayor has spent two years, two months and three days as federal inmate #56204-019 on a tax evasion conviction. Campbell, 55, is to be released from a halfway house - the Salvation Army Residential Re-Entry Center - in West Palm Beach, Fla.
•Next mayor could get hefty raise
10,000 Gwinnett absentee ballots flawed
The original ballots, designed to be filled out by hand, are flawed because of a printing error. The circle beside the candidate's name is too thick and somewhat misshapen, and consequently an optical scanning machine won't be able to read the votes on Election Day.
•School closings | Send photos | Build ballot | Guide | Survey
•Police prepare for post-election violence
Computer error cited in Georgia's voter registration checks
State officials say they sent 747,000 verification requests, not 2 million. However, the Georgia Department of Drivers Services resent many requests that resulted in a high duplicate rate.
16,000 Georgians haven't claimed tax checks worth $11M
It may seem hard to believe in these tough economic times, but more than 16,000 Georgians still have not claimed this year's economic stimulus checks or tax refunds, or both, according to the Internal Revenue Service. That amounts to $11 million in money owed to Georgia taxpayers.
North Cobb ex-principal fired
The Cobb County School Board voted Thursday night to terminate former Principal Lawrence Bynum for insubordination. The board acted after receiving a sealed report on allegations that Bynum had made sexually harassing comments to school employees.
Get your traffic ticket even faster in Cobb
Some Cobb County and Marietta police patrol cars are now equipped with computerized citation systems, reducing the time motorists spend on the side of the road waiting for officers to write traffic tickets by hand.
UGA professor hid criminal past
The school is firing Cecil Fore III, 50, a tenured associate professor in the College of Education, who served jail time for sex crimes and hid it from the university, according to a university spokesman.
•State's newest college gets OK for federal aid
Methadone sickens Forsyth kids; parents charged
Forsyth County sheriff's deputies have charged Deborah Pendleton, 45, and Oscar Carter III, 64, with one count each of felony possession of a Schedule II narcotic after three high school boys became seriously ill after taking liquid methadone.
Hundreds protest Davis' impending execution
Rallies were held around the globe Thursday as part of a final push to save the life of death row inmate Troy Anthony Davis, who was convicted in the 1989 murder of a Savannah police officer.
•5 gang members arrested
Try the costume-n-ator
Want to see Ludacris as a nerd? How about Arthur Blank as a pirate? Try our interactive costume-n-ator.
•Photos: Check out more costumes | Save it: Bookmark our Holiday Guide
•Illinois town bans teens from trick-or-treating
Report: Kids less likely to graduate than parents
Your child is less likely to graduate from high school than you were, and most states are doing little to hold schools accountable, according to a study by a children's advocacy group.
•College Board will offer eighth grade test next fall
U.S. Hispanic population up 30 percent; Gwinnett 25th in growth
Hispanics account for more than half of the U.S. population growth this decade, an increase spurred more by births than immigration, according to a new study. By comparison, the non-Hispanic U.S. population grew just 4 percent over the same time period.
Dogs' freshman A.J. Green leads SEC receivers
Heading into just the eighth game of his college career - Saturday's showdown at LSU - Green is putting up numbers that require double takes. Not to mention double coverage.
•West Virginia tops Auburn | Golfer Ballesteros' tumor malignant
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