PITTSBURGH -- A 24-year-old Atlanta man has pleaded guilty to conspiring
with 3 others to recruit homeless people in and around Pittsburgh who
cashed 61 counterfeit business checks.

DECATUR, Ga. -- Prosecutors have dropped DUI charges against Pittsburgh
Steelers receiver and Dancing With the Stars winner Hines Ward.

DUNWOODY, Ga. -- A Georgia city has hired a lawyer who was involved with
Atlanta's school cheating probe as it launches an investigation to find
out who leaked information from a city council meeting.

ATLANTA -- Gov. Nathan Deal's administration is hosting three workshops
for local officials seeking state funding for water supply projects.

ATLANTA -- The Georgia House is honoring the 45 National Guard soldiers who have died in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

DECATUR, Ga. -- Authorities say two young children reported kidnapped
after a stranger offered to help when their family car broke down have
been found safe.

MABLETON, Ga. -- The threat of bird strikes to aircraft could doom plans for a waste transfer station in metro Atlanta.

ATLANTA -- A Kuwaiti military food supplier is asking a judge to dismiss
charges that it defrauded the U.S. government on a multibillion-dollar
contract to feed soldiers in the Middle East.

NORCROSS, Ga. (AP) - Authorities say five people are dead in an apparent murder-suicide at a suburban Atlanta spa.

ATLANTA -- As a Republican lawmaker seeks to tighten rules on when a
woman can get an abortion, a Democratic lawmaker is protesting the move
by introducing a bill limiting vasectomies.

UNION CITY, Ga. -- Authorities say they've charged a motorist with vehicular homicide after a teacher was killed as she walked along a road.

ATLANTA -- Georgia is among a growing number of states filing legislation challenging a recent Obama administration decision.

ATLANTA -- A Georgia author of a fantasy trilogy who was accused of
bilking women out of millions of dollars is scheduled to enter a guilty
plea in federal court.

ATLANTA -- The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says a preliminary
identification of a body found in an Oglethorpe County well is that of a
25-year-old Monroe man who has been missing since last month.

ROME, Ga. -- A convicted murderer who came within seven hours of being
executed before he was pardoned will speak at Berry College.