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Suspended NFL quarterback Michael Vick's sentence for his role in operating a dogfighting ring was harsher than expected. Vick apologized to the court and his family during Monday's hearing.

The entire narcotics division of the Atlanta police department is under suspension as a federal investigation continues into the fatal police shooting of an 88-year-old woman in the city. The woman was killed when three officers entered her home in a drug raid without warning. Police say they entered the house based on the word of a confidential informant.

An Atlanta auction house is advertising a new collection of documents that it claims once belonged to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. But the King family questions the authenticity and ownership of the papers.

President Jimmy Carter's latest book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, has prompted 14 members of a Carter Center community board to resign in protest. Last month, a Carter Fellow and longtime Carter advisor also resigned over the book. It has raised criticism from Jewish groups and Democrats across the country.

The small town of Conyers, southeast of Atlanta, has lost two soldiers in Iraq -- Pfc. Diego Rincon, 19, and Army Spc. Jamaal Addison, 22. Conyers has been growing because of its proximity to Georgia's capital city, but it still has a small-town personality -- and many people there have passionate feelings about the war, and the town's losses. Hear NPR's Kathy Lohr.

Georgia is scheduled to execute two inmates by lethal injection later this month, despite legal questions that have been raised about whether the method amounts to cruel and unusual punishment.

Ten years ago, Oklahoma City was rocked by the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building. Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Bill Clinton were among thousands who gathered to remember the 168 people who died in the attack.

Ministries raise millions of dollars with little oversight. One Senate lawmaker wonders whether the lavish lifestyles of the ministers violate the churches' tax-exempt status. Six megachurches have been asked to respond by Dec. 6 to questions about their spending.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta rejects the latest appeal from Terri Schiavo's parents. But Bob and Mary Schindler are continuing to urge Florida officials to help them reconnect their brain-damaged daughter's feeding tube.

Georgia police arrest Brian Nichols, the man they say killed a judge, a court reporter and a deputy Friday at an Atlanta courthouse. Nichols was taken into custody at a suburban Atlanta apartment complex. He's also implicated in the death of a U.S. Customs agent whose body was found Saturday.