The Obama administration will immediately begin to assess the hundreds of coal ash disposal sites at power plants across the country in the wake of two spills in Alabama and Tennessee.

Mayor Shirley Franklin is hopeful President-elect Barack Obama will make good on a promise to unite Georgia, Florida and Alabama over the issue of water.

President-elect Barack Obama has asked Democratic senators not to stand in the way of an additional $350 billion in bailout funds, calling the money essential to helping the troubled economy.

A group of students from an inner-city Atlanta private school that scored an Internet hit with a rap about the election is headed to Washington, D.C., to perform during inauguration events.

It’s probably fitting that Manning High School’s marching band’s story is unlikely, since Barack Obama’s run for the White House was at first considered unlikely as well. But they’ll be together in Washington, D.C. for the Inaugural Parade. WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more.

Governor Rod Blagojevich says the Illinois House’s decision to impeach him was no surprise because he’s been engaged in a struggle with lawmakers since his re-election in 2006.

Obama stood in the Oval Office on Wednesday with President George W. Bush and three former presidents: Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. The president-elect said all of them understand the pressures of the job and he looks forward to sharing time with them.

President-elect Barack Obama’s appointed successor was turned away when he appeared at the U.S. Capitol to take his seat.

President-elect Barack Obama is promising that his economic stimulus plan won’t include money for politicians’ pet projects and will include provisions aimed at ensuring his administration is open and accountable to taxpayers and Congress.

Retired Admiral Dennis Blair is Barack Obama’s choice to be director of national intelligence. Two Democratic officials said Monday that the former head of U.S. Pacific Command was the president-elect’s choice for the post. They spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement has not yet been made.

Two Democratic officials say President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Clinton White House chief of staff Leon Panetta to run the CIA.

The U.S. Senate’s sergeant at arms says he doesn’t expect trouble when Roland Burris shows up to be sworn in as President-elect Barack Obama’s successor on Tuesday.

A House Democrat is daring Senate leaders to block a black man from taking President-elect Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat.

Neenah Paper, based in Alpharetta, Ga., says it will provide Obama’s team with the “greenest premium paper in the world” for invitations to the Jan. 20 event. The invitations will be printed by Precision Continental in Brooklyn, New York.

The Rev. Rick Warren, whose selection to deliver the invocation at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration next month has drawn controversy, will be in the pulpit at Ebenezer Baptist Church to deliver the keynote address at the Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative service.