Plans for a mixed-use development as part of the College Hill Corridor moved another step Monday toward reality.

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.

President Barack Obama will be sticking around the White House today as Washington continues to dig out from its big snowfall, and prepares for another one expected to begin this afternoon.

Snowy weather was expected to move into the Eastern U.S. from the Plains on Tuesday.

Activists vowing to stop the killing of whales exchanged water-cannon fire with a Japanese whaling fleet they are tailing in the Antarctic Ocean.

New Zealanders who for decades have endured jokes about being outnumbered 20-to-1 by sheep have a new farm animal majority to worry about: cows.