Just hours before the Labor Day weekend’s unofficial start, Allan Collins Jr. was in front of a computer, checking leads on full-time jobs.

WARNER ROBINS — When Joanna McAfee was 3 years old, she would put on her miniature University of Georgia cheerleader outfit and steal everybody’s heart. She had a way of doing that. Joanna would tell people she was going to be a UGA cheerleader when she grew up. That was the plan. Her big brother, Paul, dreamed of one day playing football for the Bulldogs, and she wanted to be on the sidelines to cheer for him.

Central Fellowship head coach Chris Oxford got his birthday present a day early in the form of Okoye Riley.

Macon’s industrial recruiters have had two big hits that will benefit the local economy. Two weeks ago, First Quality Baby Products announced an expansion, adding 150 jobs. Thursday, TIMCO, the aircraft maintenance company, announced an expansion of operations, too, adding 130 jobs total, 100 by Jan. 1, to handle the Boeing 767.

The congressional ethics investigation of Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is broader than previously disclosed and goes well beyond his use of $12 in per diem expense money to buy six decorative goblets in Afghanistan last year.

Two babies have been killed in a three-vehicle collision involving a gas tanker in Phoenix.

The powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake that smashed buildings, cracked roads and twisted rail lines around a New Zealand city also ripped a new 11-foot- (3.5 meter-) wide fault in the earth's surface, officials said Sunday.

One Nevada gubernatorial hopeful sees a speedy fix to Nevada's budget crisis. Nonpartisan candidate Eugene "Gino" DiSimone believes people would pay for the privilege to drive up to 90 mph on designated highways - and fill the state's depleted coffers.