ATHENS — It’s not that Georgia doesn’t want to play a few easy games, but it’s hard to ignore the trend. In fact, it has become the Bulldogs’ calling card for much of this season.

The date for a Downtown Developers Day in Macon tentatively has been set for mid-April, and the Macon-Bibb County Urban Development Authority has pledged up to $5,000 to help make it happen.

Macon City Council appears to have reverted to its old tricks earlier this week when it rejected Mayor Robert Reichert's choice for director of the city's Emergency Management Agency. This was an action that appears grounded in political payback, and it is one that deprived Macon of hiring someone who, from all appearances, was the best candidate for the job.

The Senate ethics committee on Friday admonished Democratic Sen. Roland Burris for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's old Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.

A jury is deliberating the fate of a black school teacher charged with assaulting white police officers in Missouri

Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents.

The Alabama Supreme Court says a woman who thought she had hit a jackpot worth almost $42 million at the Victoryland electronic bingo center will end up empty handed. The court ruled Friday that an electronic bingo machine that showed Sherry Knowles had won $41.8 million obviously malfunctioned and that she was actually due no more than $2 from the operation in Macon County.