Updated: 8:34 AM Talk about something you really don't see every day. A police car, vertical on a utility pole.

Posted: 11:03 PM Passage, on a largely party-line vote of 234-193, sent the measure toward its certain demise in the Democratic-controlled Senate, triggering the final partisan showdown of a remarkably quarrelsome year of divided government.

Posted: 5:00 PM More than 3,000 communities report number of homeless individuals, families and veterans

Posted: 4:41 PM The U.S. Postal Service has agreed to delay the closing of 252 mail processing centers and 3,700 local post offices until mid-May.

Posted: 4:25 PM The Dow Jones industrial average fell 66 points, or 0.6 percent, to close at 11,955.

Updated: 7:15 PM Federal accident investigators recommended states ban the use of cell phones and other electronic devices by all drivers except in emergencies.

Posted: 11:02 AM A report identifies more than 650 brand name products that contain two hormone-disrupting toxic chemicals.

Posted: 4:26 PM The Dow closed down 163 points, or 1.3 percent, at 12,021.

Posted: 4:23 PM The federal government is on pace to run a deficit below $1 trillion for the first time in four years, modest progress in the face of intense debate in Washington over spending.

Posted: 6:34 AM Sunday alcohol sales continue to spread in communities across Georgia since lawmakers legalized them this year.

Posted: 11:24 AM More than 1,000 guns collected during a Tampa Police Department's gun buy-back event will be destroyed.

Posted: 1:49 PM A state report says Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal played no role in the departure of two top officials at the state ethics commission. But in an interview in the report, one of the ethics officials said federal prosecutors were investigating Deal's tax records and loans.

Posted: 1:36 PM The U.S. Postal Service's plan to close 252 mail processing facilities and cut 28,000 jobs by the end of next year faces big obstacles.

Posted: 4:49 PM The Dow Jones industrial average closed up 186 points, or 1.6 percent, at 12,184.

Updated: 9:17 AM Newt Gingrich is the far away leader among Republicans in the GOP presidential field in Florida, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll out today.

Posted: 4:36 PM The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 199 points, or 1.6 percent, to close at 11,998.

Updated: 1:39 PM Newt Gingrich has opened up a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney in Florida’s Republican primary, a new Quinnipiac University poll says.

Updated: 11:05 PM Ross Truett Ashley, 22, first drew authorities' attention when he robbed his landlord's office at gunpoint Wednesday in Radford, where he studied business part-time at Radford University.

Posted: 5:32 PM A district attorney says it's inaccurate to make any comparison between the sex abuse scandal involving a Syracuse University assistant basketball coach and the one at Penn State.

Updated: 6:43 PM Jerry Sandusky has been taken to a Pennsylvania county jail after being unable to post $250,000 bail in cash.

Updated: 4:52 PM The Dow closed up 46 points, or 0.4 percent, at 12,196.

Posted: 6:40 AM The FDA could soon decide to put the morning after pill on store shelves for teens younger than 17 to buy without a prescription.

Posted: 11:47 PM President Barack Obama is backing tougher penalties for financial fraud after a top Wall Street regulator called for more tools to punish repeat offenders.

Posted: 11:43 PM Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he will not participate in a debate being hosted this month by real estate mogul and TV personality Donald Trump.

Posted: 11:38 PM Penn State president Rodney Erickson says faculty members should not worry that school trustees would "whitewash" an investigation into child sex-abuse allegations against former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.