PORTLAND, Maine — A treasure hunter said Wednesday he has located the wreck of a British merchant ship that was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Cape Cod during World War II while carrying what he claims was a load of platinum bars now worth more than $3 billion. Read More

LILBURN — The South's iconic groundhog, Gen. Beauregard Lee, waddled out of his "Weathering Heights" mansion and failed to see his shadow on the Georgia red dirt. Read More

ATLANTA — People accused of polluting Georgia's waterways would see more incentives to negotiate with state regulators under a bill approved Wednesday by a state Senate committee. Read More

JACKSON — A judge on Tuesday halted the execution of a Georgia man less than an hour before he was set to die for the 2001 murders of a woman and her 3-year-old daughter, acting after the inmate signaled he would file a new round of appeals. Read More

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Minutes before two pileups killed 10 people on a highway shrouded in fog and thick smoke from a brush fire, the Florida Highway Patrol had reopened the always busy six-lane interstate after an earlier serious accident. Read More

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama delivered an election-year broadside to Republicans: Game on. Read More

ATLANTA - He's an ardent supporter of Israel. A megabillionaire casino mogul whose Las Vegas Sands Corp. is under federal investigation. And the self-proclaimed "richest Jew in the world." Read More

HARDEEVILLE, S.C. - Work could begin as early as this year on a new bridge on U.S. 17 at the Georgia-South Carolina state line. Read More

Around 30 local anglers gathered Wednesday at the John W. Stevens Wetlands Education Center in J.F. Gregory Park when representatives from the Georgia Department of Natural Resources Coastal Resources Division presented information about proposed changes to saltwater fishing regulations. Read More