Updated: 9:50 PM He saw himself as a revolutionary and savior of the poor. But the legacy of Hugo Chavez will be much more complex.

Updated: 2:07 PM About 2,000 workers at the Savannah River Site near Aiken will be working reduced schedules starting next month because of the federal budget cuts. Other employees will be laid off.

Updated: 2:02 PM Prosecutors also charged two new defendants with manslaughter Monday. The manslaughter charge announced during a status hearing carries a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.

Updated: 2:03 PM The Deals, Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning Commissioner Bobby Cagle and State School Superintendent John Barge have proclaimed March as Read Across Georgia month.

Updated: 10:47 PM Authorities have busted the third meth lab in York County in two weeks.

Updated: 10:46 PM Lawyers for a Chinese immigrant whose premature baby died after the pregnant woman tried to kill herself by eating rat poison are asking an Indianapolis judge to bar the infant's autopsy photographs from her murder trial.

Updated: 10:45 PM Atlanta police say they have busted a ring of retail stores found selling nearly $2 million worth of counterfeit items.

Posted: 8:56 PM The Conway man suspected in the shooting death of a Coastal Carolina University student earlier this week has surrendered to authorities.

Updated: 11:22 AM The school's Board of Trustees approved a $45 increase to season ticket prices for 2013, raising the cost to $365 a seat for the Gamecocks seven-game schedule. The school said Thursday it has not raised football season tickets since 2008.

Posted: 2:44 PM Atlanta-based Southern Co. said Thursday that finishing Plant Vogtle will now cost an estimated $6.85 billion, up from $6.11 billion.

Posted: 2:34 PM Chief Justice Harold G. Clarke served on the Supreme Court of Georgia from 1979 to 1994.

Posted: 1:04 PM The South Carolina Supreme Court has overturned a settlement involving the estate of James Brown, saying a former attorney general didn't follow the late soul singer's wishes in putting together the deal.

Updated: 12:02 PM Coastal Carolina University spokeswoman Martha Hunn said early Wednesday that 19-year-old Anthony Darnell Liddell of Bennettsville died after the shooting at University Place residence hall.

Updated: 12:03 PM Tens of thousands of people toting banners saying "Grazie!" -- "thank you" -- jammed the piazza to bid farewell to the pope at his final general audience.

Updated: 12:04 PM Department of education officials say the partnership is part of the Zoo's mission to make educational resources available to a larger number of students in the state.

Updated: 12:48 PM A collision between a school bus and a truck in Wayne County has left the truck driver dead and several students with minor injuries.

Posted: 5:29 PM For 101-year-old British-Indian, Fauja Singh, this run was a celebration of his retirement and marked the end of his competitive running career.

Updated: 12:51 PM It's been one year since neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in central Florida.

Updated: 2:53 AM The Georgia Appeals Court on Wednesday temporarily stayed Cook's execution to consider a challenge to the state's lethal injection procedure. But the Georgia Supreme Court lifted the stay Thursday. Other appeals were exhausted.

Posted: 5:15 PM A letter shows a former police officer who killed his former daughter-in-law and another woman at a Delaware courthouse before fatally shooting himself was diagnosed more than two decades ago with a brain tumor.

Posted: 5:13 PM One man says there'd been an odor of gas -- but "not strong" -- near JJ's restaurant in Kansas City for the past couple of weeks. And then, the odor got stronger yesterday.

Posted: 3:34 PM Cook is one of two inmates scheduled to be executed this week. Warren Lee Hill's execution was put on hold Tuesday, less than an hour before he was set to die by lethal injection.

Posted: 3:30 PM Delta Air Lines apologized to passengers arriving in Savannah after a jet veered off a runway and ended up in a grassy area.

Posted: 3:26 PM Wildlife officers in North Carolina and Georgia say they have conducted an undercover operation that cracked down on poachers who were killing bears and other animals.

Posted: 3:23 PM The 28-year-old woman died after she was shot during a traffic stop and a man in the car fled on foot. While Officer William T. Knight was chasing the man, authorities say Lamb tried to hit the officer with the car, and he shot her.