STATE/REGIONAL NEWS

A former magician and one-time church youth minister has pleaded guilty
to secretly taping a half-dozen young boys in public restrooms at metro
Atlanta department stores.

State senators are in unanimous support of a proposal to create a state-wide alert system to catch criminals who kill or seriously injury law enforcement officers in Georgia.

A 38-year-old jogger from Georgia is dead after a single-engine plane
making an emergency landing hit him as he ran on a South Carolina beach
listening to his iPod.

Glynn County firefighters battled a fire on a train trestle after at
least two rail cars carrying Mercedes-Benz vehicles caught fire.

Authorities say a South Carolina woman is in critical condition after she was struck by a rock that flew through her windshield when a pickup truck hit a pothole along Interstate 20 near the Alabama-Georgia line.

School officials in Gwinnett County Schools want more than 300 Lilburn Middle School students to be screened for tuberculosis after two sixth graders tested positive for the disease.

Rhodes sought to avoid deployment to Iraq by claiming Obama wasn't born in the U.S.

Georgia authorities have arrested 67 suspects and seized more than 300 computers in the aftermath of a three-month child pornography crackdown.

The state Legislature is set to take up the budget this week after Gov.
Sonny Perdue proposed a slate of new cuts last week to deal with
shrinking revenues.

The body of a female Kennesaw State University student was found just outside the school's central parking deck Monday morning, according to campus police.

Some lawmakers now want the state to give the land to the city of
Augusta for $1, even though Georgia taxpayers will pay $500,000
annually on the defunct project for five more years.

The court issued a 4-3 ruling Monday that upheld a part of the law
that made it harder for patients to file medical malpractice lawsuits
against emergency health care providers.

The senior pastor of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church took an HIV/AIDS test during the Sunday morning service to encourage church members to do the same.

A hearing is set for a Georgia man accused of paying underage girls for sexual acts.

Clayton County is inspecting an apartment complex where a 3-year-old girl fell 10 feet through a rotted bathroom floor.

The challenge was brought by Jake Rainer, who pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and robbery in 2001 to robbing a 17-year-old girl after arranging to buy some drugs from her.

Police say Lance Cpl. Gregory M. Suedmeyer died at an Atlanta hospital two hours after an SUV driving the wrong way on Interstate20 hit his car Saturday afternoon.

When Gov. Sonny Perdue pitches in next week to help Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida in his bid to become a U.S. Senator, the gesture may be about more than helping out a fellow
Republican in a tough campaign.

Dozens of people are facing animal cruelty charges after a cockfighting raid in north Georgia.

The city of Atlanta says it will spend thousands to replace the grates on the roads.