By Lori Yount, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Jan. 15--ATLANTA -- As promised, Georgia lawmakers were greeted at the 2008 legislative session Monday with copies of the state's first water management plan waiting on their desks.

By Lori Yount, Chattanooga Times/Free Press, Tenn. Jan. 14--ATLANTA -- Georgia lawmakers will consider doing something they've never done when the 2008 Georgia legislative session is gaveled to a start today. They'll consider adopting a state water plan.

By MARCUS WOHLSEN and SCOTT LINDLAW SAN FRANCISCO - A harbor pilot under investigation in San Francisco Bay's biggest oil spill in two decades initially believed the damage to his ship was minor, radioing that the vessel had just "touched" the Bay Bridge, his lawyer said Monday.

By Mary Anne Ostrom and Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Nov. 10--The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday suggested that bungled communications among the ship's crew may have led to Wednesday's collision of the Cosco Busan cargo ship with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

By Mary Anne Ostrom and Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Nov. 10--The U.S. Coast Guard on Friday suggested that bungled communications among the ship's crew may have led to Wednesday's collision of the Cosco Busan cargo ship with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.