It's been more than two weeks since America elected its first African-American president, and the excitement is still running high. But that wasn't the only major story to develop on Election Day. A hotly contested ballot initiative to squash gay marriage in California was also approved, and gay rights supporters are not taking the defeat quietly.

Capital City Bank is expected to begin construction of its new corporate office and bank this month at 325 Fifth St. and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Macon, said Steve Jukes, Capital CityÕs community president for Bibb County.

The $25 billion rescue plan for the auto industry, desperately sought by Detroit's beleaguered Big Three, collapsed Thursday as Congress drew the line at one more bailout and Democrats said they wouldn't even consider it until the companies produced a convincing plan for rebuilding their once-mighty industry.

Lawmakers are poised to close a loophole that led to troubled teens being abandoned at Nebraska hospitals, but they aren't stopping there. Instead, they're vowing to make sure families can get help in a crisis.

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of non-combat-related causes in Iraq.

R.J. Richard says he doesn't normally put his cell phone in his chest pocket. But he says it saved his life the one time he did.