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Six years ago, Hurricane Katrina blew up the Gulf Coast, killed more than 1,800 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless. On the Mississippi coast, thousands still live in battered housing, trapped by a technicality: Their homes were damaged by wind gusts rather than Katrina's storm surge.

The Georgia congressman, a key foot soldier of the civil rights movement, will be honored with the nation's highest civilian honor Tuesday. Lewis says it's especially poignant because it comes from the nation's first African-American president: "It's hard to believe that in a short time that we have come so far as a nation and as a people."

Kia Motors is adding 1,000 new jobs to its auto manufacturing plant in West Point, Ga. Unemployed residents and local officials in the town of LaGrange are celebrating the news. But the unemployment rate in the county still remains higher than the national average.

Since 1993, Georgia's HOPE scholarship has given all high school students the chance to go to college as long as they kept their grades up. But recent cuts in the program's funding mean most will no longer qualify for full scholarships.

Police across the country are re-examining the policy of surprise searches, called "no-knock" searches, after an elderly woman was killed in Atlanta during one such raid. Critics say the searches give a free pass to violence-prone police departments. Supporters argue that police need this tactic to protect themselves.

For years the Justice Department opposed Georgia's voter verification law, which requires voters to prove they are U.S. citizens. But in a surprise reversal, federal officials recently approved it. However, legal experts say instances of real voter fraud is rare.

Former state trooper James Bonard Fowler is charged with murder in connection with the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was shot and killed in Marion, Ala. after a civil rights protest in 1965. Fowler, now 77, claims it was self-defense. Jackson's death galvanized civil rights leaders and led to the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march.

Federal officials say two young men have been arrested, and a third man is being sought, in the investigation into a series of church burnings in rural Alabama.

Troy Anthony Davis was convicted in 1991 of killing a Savannah, Ga., police officer. But his lawyers say seven of the nine witnesses who ID'd him as the killer have recanted or changed their testimony. On Wednesday, Davis will get to present this evidence in court, after the Supreme Court ordered a federal judge to hear his new claims.

Just a small part of I-95 runs through Georgia, but it's a vital part of a pipeline that hauls goods to and from the Port of Savannah. Some call the port "The Quiet Giant," and its economic impact is enormous.