Marla Lawson is getting out of the business of sketching the faces of evil.

A federal magistrate sentenced seven men to prison time for poaching bears and deer and other illegal hunting activities in national forests in North Carolina and Georgia.

The U.S. Army Ranger killed in an apparent parachuting mishap was a 21-year-old veteran from Massachusetts who recently returned from Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

No tickets matched all four numbers plus the Mega Ball in the Mega Money game so the jackpot rolled over to $1.3 million, the Florida Lottery said Saturday.

The timber industry in Georgia shows signs of improvement after a slump brought on by the collapsing housing market.

Police are investigating the fatal shooting of two men in Phenix City.

Alda Gentile was not arrested. She was not charged with a crime. Yet police in Georgia seized $11,530 in cash that Gentile said she had in a car for a house-hunting trip in Florida.

Georgia Power says roughly 2,000 of its customers in metro Atlanta remain without power following severe storms.

The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Florida Lottery's "Play 4 Midday" game were:

The winning numbers in Saturday afternoon's drawing of the Florida Lottery's "Cash 3 Midday" game were:

These Florida lotteries were drawn Saturday:

Lawmakers in Georgia and several other states are trying to make it harder for police to seize money and property, and requiring more transparency when they do.

Two teens have been wounded in a shooting that Warner Robins police are now investigating.

A 52-year-old man from Lithia Springs has died in a traffic accident.

Darvin Ham, a former Atlanta player who spent the last two seasons on the Los Angeles Lakers' staff, has been named a Hawks assistant coach.

Atlanta police are investigating how a body wound up in the trunk of a car.

A Florida Panhandle man faces a possible death sentence for killing a teenage Georgia girl on vacation with her family.

A northwest Georgia man has pleaded guilty to planting drugs on a woman's car to get her arrested.

An Army Ranger was found dead on the ground with parachute cords wrapped around his neck after a routine training jump in southeast Georgia and commanders hope an investigation will reveal what went wrong, a military spokesman said Friday.

After Flannery O'Connor died in 1964, the middle Georgia farm where the author lived and wrote during her final years suffered from decades of decay _ paint and plaster peeled inside the main house, the 30-foot water tower behind it teetered on the brink of collapse and the massive cow barn sagged on aging timbers.