The Oklahoma Insurance Department says a preliminary estimate suggests the cost of the tornado that hit the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore could be more than $2 billion.

The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from a tornado in an Oklahoma City suburb to 24 people, including nine children.

Health officials say they found fecal bacteria in more than half of the water samples taken from Atlanta-area public swimming pools last summer.

State labor officials say Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate has dropped to 8.2 percent in April.

The Senate voted 26-14 on Thursday to insert their sale in the chamber's 2013-14 budget plan.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev left a note claiming responsibility for the April 13 attack on the Boston Marathon, reports CBS News senior correspondent John Miller.

School administrators are trying to find out how a photo caption next to a student's photo labeled him a "freak" in a high school yearbook.

Federal regulators say more than 100 gallons of water with traces of a radioactive hydrogen isotope have leaked at the Catawba Nuclear Station.

Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Sherri Iacobelli says Chesterfield Democrat Ted Vick was arrested at around 11 p.m. Tuesday by the Bureau of Protective Services.

Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has ordered the Department of Natural Resources to return Bibles that were removed from cabins and lodges at state parks.

South Carolina's school districts may be able to sell advertisements on activity buses next school year.

A Cleveland official says three women who survived a decade-long kidnapping ordeal are beginning to get lawyers to help with compensation.

Authorities searching for a missing Middle Georgia State College student say they have found evidence near the home of a teenage suspect charged with his murder.

Authorities in Rock Hill say a man free on bond on a number of charges is back in jail after police say he broke into his ex-girlfriend's home and assaulted her.

Investigators have up to now largely treated the West Fertilizer Co. blast that killed 14 people as an industrial accident.

A Spartanburg man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison in what authorities have called a plot to randomly shoot at and kill people.

Police say a teenager has been apprehended and charged with murder in the case of a Middle Georgia State College student missing for more than two weeks.

As temperatures begin to rise, officials from six state agencies are reminding Georgians to never leave children unattended in vehicles.

The woman, wearing a violet dress, was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

An alligator that had been living in the pond of a suburban Atlanta subdivision was removed, but not before biting the trapper on his arm.

A dairy company is voluntarily recalling ice cream produced in Winston-Salem and distributed to 10 states that don't identify possible allergens because the product is packed in the wrong containers.

The new law would allow film companies to be reimbursed up to 25 percent for payroll taxes on in-state wages and up to 30 percent for what they spend at local businesses.

An Aynor police officer has been fired after authorities say he offered to tear up a traffic ticket if a woman he pulled over lifted her shirt.

Arizona authorities have arrested an 18-year-old Phoenix man in connection with a bomb threat that was tweeted after the Jodi Arias verdict was announced.

A police report says three Cleveland women held in captivity inside a home for about a decade were threatened, starved and raped.