Georgia Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine announced Tuesday that American Fidelity Life Insurance Company has agreed to a settlement payment for all Georgia policyholders.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) will be the site of a special deer hunt, on November 14th, for mobility impaired and wounded military veterans.

South Carolina communities near military bases are planning now to get an economic boost from the military’s next jet fighter, the F-35.

Thursday morning, officials from Knology held a groundbreaking ceremony in Augusta, which means about 100 jobs are up for grabs. Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud for more.

One of the country’s main monitors of hate groups is asking Congress to investigate possible racial extremism in the military, after finding service members on a social networking Web site advertised as being for whites only.

President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have signed what they call a “joint understanding” to negotiate a new arms control treaty that would set substantially lower levels of nuclear warheads for both countries.

The United States and Russia say they are resuming military cooperation suspended after Russia invaded its smaller neighbor Georgia last year. The expected announcement came Monday, as President Barack Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev met for their first summit in Moscow.

President Barack Obama is telling the Associated Press that he always has reserved the right to adjust the U.S. troop withdrawal timetable in Iraq based on changing circumstances. But he says he’s confident the U.S. will be able to abide by agreements it made with Iraqis.

The Supreme Court has turned down a challenge to the Pentagon policy forbidding gays and lesbians from serving openly in the military, granting a request by the Obama administration.

The Pentagon wants more time before the ban on gays serving openly in the military is reversed. A senior military official says that while President Barack Obama has been clear that he wants to repeal the ban, there is no specific timeline to do it. The official says that leaves room that the military wants to use to make sure the eventual change goes well.

Children whose parents are in the military will have an easier time changing Georgia schools under a bill signed into law by Gov. Sonny Perdue.

News agencies are quoting Kyrgyzstan’s president as saying that his country is ending U.S. use of a key airbase that supports military operations in Afghanistan.

The White House says President Barack Obama is expected to decide “relatively soon” on his approach to ending the war in Iraq.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the Pentagon could send two more brigades to Afghanistan by late spring and a third brigade by late summer.

According to Lt. David Turno, officers from the Aiken Department of Public Safety (ADPS) responded to call from the homeowner at 288 Sand Fox Place in Aiken, about 4:50 p.m., Wednesday afternoon.