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Byline: Tom Bennett In the darkest days of the Second World War, one voice united the nation. One voice, with a slightly lisping delivery. It was, of course, that of [...]

Byline: Tom Bennett Pandora Clifford is currently starring in The Railway Children at Waterloo Station theatre and previously appeared in BBC1's New Tricks, and Wallander, with Kenneth Branagh. Follow her [...]

Byline: Tom Bennett It's as traditional as turkey and Santa. The moment when the family, replete after Christmas lunch, heads for the tinseldecorated sitting room to watch a film on [...]

He was the shrewd, sharp-witted son of Albany, the fun-loving fraternity brother at the University of Georgia and the precocious author of a plan to take the White House, written [...]

Ethics and politics Land deal not a big deal Regarding the front-page story about Gov. Sonny Perdue's land deal ('Perdue deal has rich potential,' Page One, Aug. 16): The big [...]

Ben F. Johnson Jr., principal author of the state law creating MARTA, adeptly mixed academic, legal and political careers. He was at various times a state assistant attorney general, an [...]

Abortion: Responses to 'Unborn children gain favor,' Equal Time, Feb. 28 Life isn't the issue; power is Let's face it, most so-called pro-lifers are not 'pro-life.' They are pro-control and [...]

Robert L. Scott Jr. of Warner Robins was a retired Air Force brigadier general and World War II air ace who wrote the best-selling book 'God Is My Co-Pilot,' which [...]

Almost everything that she had done in her life prepared Rosa Parks for her role as the American who would challenge and ultimately help defeat notorious Jim Crow segregation laws [...]

Rosa Parks, among the greatest heroines of the civil rights movement, died of natural causes Monday at her home in Detroit. She was 92. Parks' refusal to give up her [...]

Arnold S. Rosenfeld of Atlanta, a former editor of The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, was known as much for his humanity as his journalism. His daughter Missy Rosenfeld recalled her [...]

Newsweek Responses to 'Newsweek says story was flawed,' News, May 16 Magazine the cause of too much death, grief Nine years ago this week, one of the United States' finest [...]

***** CORRECTION: 05/11/05, Page A/02: The Betty Talmadge obituary story in Tuesday's Metro section gave the wrong location for Lovejoy Plantation. It is outside Lovejoy in unincorporated Clayton County. ***** [...]

Georgia has 155 official secrets --- the known exemptions to open government. The 155 statutes, having crept separately into law since 1959, are buried under 29 titles of the state [...]

1939 --- As the 150th anniversary of the U.S. Bill of Rights approaches, the Georgia Legislature ratifies it. 1945 --- Ralph McGill, editor of The Atlanta Constitution, tours the world [...]

***** CORRECTION: 02/25/05, Page A/02: In a timeline that accompanied Wednesday's obituary of the late Gov. Ernest Vandiver, the information for 1963 should have included Vandiver's return to private law [...]

***** CORRECTION: 02/25/05, Page A/02: In a timeline that accompanied Wednesday's obituary of the late Gov. Ernest Vandiver, the information for 1963 should have included Vandiver's return to private law [...]

It takes more than a good coach and good players to consistently field championship teams. At Georgia Tech, part of the winning equation was the work of head trainer Buck [...]

***** CORRECTION: 01/27/05, page A/2: A quote from attorney Frank C. Jones in the obituary for federal Judge William Augustus Bootle in Wednesday's Metro section should have described the judge [...]

Manuel J. Maloof, the profane, hot-tempered, big-hearted barkeep who rose from obscurity to head one of metro Atlanta's largest governments, died Saturday of cardiac arrest at Emory University Hospital. He [...]

Jim Rankin, 80, of Irvington, Va., a retired news executive of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, died of pneumonia Saturday at Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock, Va. The memorial service is 2 [...]

Distinguished Atlanta native Daniel J. Boorstin was a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian and a 12-year librarian of Congress. Memorial service plans for Dr. Boorstin, 89, of Washington, who died [...]

Dr. Samuel M. Nabrit of Atlanta, distinguished scientist, educator and philanthropist, died Tuesday at Atlanta Medical Center. Dr. Nabrit, 98, was a leading scientist known for research on the tail [...]

Black-on-black violence: Responses to Cynthia Tucker's column 'Race must face black violence,' @issue, Dec. 14 Tucker brave to address reality of responsibility I couldn't agree with Cynthia Tucker more on [...]

***** CORRECTION: 07/04/03, page A/2: Thursday's front page picture of former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. was not taken in 1970, as the caption on the Associated Press file photo [...]

***** CORRECTION: Correction: 07/04/03, page A/2: Thursday's front page picture of former Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. was not taken in 1970, as the caption on the Associated Press file [...]

Strom Thurmond of South Carolina bridged the Old South and New South as the nation's longest-serving senator and architect of a two-party system in Dixie. First elected to the Senate [...]

Charles Fraser, Georgia-born principal developer of Hilton Head Island, S.C., died in a boating accident Sunday south of the Bahamas. Mr. Fraser, 73, a native of Hinesville, and his wife, [...]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution won 11 first places in the Atlanta Association of Black Journalists Awards. The association announced the awards Saturday. At the ceremony, Amanda Davis, co-anchor of news at [...]

Eugene P. Odum looked at the world as a whole and revolutionized the study of ecology. The eminent University of Georgia scientist contended that ecology was not a subdivision of [...]

'Georgia's disappearing songbirds,' staff writer Charles Seabrook's May 2001 series about the declining bird population and the dangers it faces, has won the Renewable Natural Resources Foundation's Excellence in Journalism [...]

The Atlanta Journal has been named Georgia's best newspaper, winning 15 first places in the Georgia Press Association Contest for work in 2001. They include: General excellence. Community service, Jane [...]

'Our man in Washington is a woman,' touted The Atlanta Journal in 1962. That was the promotional campaign when award-winning reporter Margaret Shannon, who had worked for the paper since [...]

'Dying in darkness,' a series of articles in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution by staff writers Ann Hardie and Ken Foskett, has won the $10,000 prize for newspapers in the 2002 Health [...]

Staff writer Ken Foskett of the Journal-Constitution has been named Cox Newspapers' writer of the year. He was honored for his profile of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and also [...]

Luther A. Alverson was the longest-serving full-time Superior Court judge in Georgia and a principal sponsor of bail reform. Judge Alverson, 94, of Atlanta, who was on the Fulton Superior [...]

T.M. Alexander integrated Atlanta elections and the Metropolitan Opera tour and is credited with keeping the Montgomery bus boycott alive. Theodore Martin Alexander Sr., 92, of Atlanta died Thursday of [...]

Boisfeuillet Jones Sr., president emeritus of the Woodruff foundations who gave away a half-billion dollars, died Wednesday at Piedmont Hospital after a fall at his Atlanta residence. Mr. Jones, 88, [...]

Frania Tye Lee was married to Texas oilman H.L. Hunt, until she learned he had another wife and family. After he died in 1974, she sued his estate and received [...]

Jim Auchmutey, a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has been named Cox Newspapers writer of the year for the second time. He was honored for his features last year [...]

Sam Caldwell, 73, who built a statewide political machine as Georgia's labor commissioner and became the only state constitutional officer ever convicted of a felony, died Saturday at his Decatur [...]

When Atlanta Roman Catholic Archbishop Eugene Marino resigned in June 1990, he said it was because of the stress of the job. It soon came to light that the church [...]

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Jan. 9 Perspective issue, 'Inside the 2000 Georgia Legislature,' has been voted the country's best newspaper opinion section. It was selected by the judges of the Association [...]

The Journal-Constitution's Cobb County sports section is winning honors statewide. The section and its football preview, both edited by Bob Giles, won Georgia Sports Writers Association first-place awards for best [...]

Cornelius Adolphus Scott, who shaped how black people were depicted in the media in seven decades, in Atlanta and nationally, as the editor and publisher of the nation's first black [...]

Jane O. Hansen of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has won the Public Service award in the Georgia Associated Press Association Awards for her coverage of child abuse issues. The AJC's other [...]

His autobiography is titled 'An Outdoor Life,' but Charlie Elliott --- whose exploits were inspiration for the comic strip character 'Mark Trail' --- lived several outdoor lives. During his 93 [...]

With articles about suburban demographics, the Muslim faith and other topics, the Journal-Constitution has captured eight first-places in the 23rd Atlanta Association of Black Journalists' Pioneer Awards. They are: Community [...]

Tom Bennett Staff writer Jane O. Hansen has won the Gov. James M. Cox Public Service Award for her reporting in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on child abuse in Georgia. Other [...]

Tom Bennett Morris B. Abram Sr., the lawyer who led the legal battle that overturned Georgia's county unit system, died Thursday in Geneva. Mr. Abram, 81, was being treated for [...]