ATLANTA — Bills meant to reduce paper use in state government and to expand a state Web site already loaded with information about government spending and employee salaries will be a priority for top Senate leaders, they announced Monday.

The 2009 Georgia General Assembly session ended with a deafening thud as far as two threatened museums were concerned. The Georgia Music Hall of Fame and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame were counting on a locally sponsored measure to devote an extra penny from the hotel-motel to help the museums make ends meet. It didn’t happen. Our local delegation couldn’t get itself together enough to get the job done.

Mother Nature's wrath has forced the U.S. House to scrap its work week.

The Homeland Security Department estimates the number of illegal immigrants living in the U.S. fell about 7 percent to 10.8 million in January 2009.

A governing party candidate in Bolivia is making 1,000 adobe bricks as part of a drunk-driving sentence handed down under the community justice system backed by the country's pro-indigenous government.

A man police dubbed the Bicycle Bandit has admitted committing eight bank robberies in southern New Jersey and Delaware.