Georgia

Black pants, black helmets and another team-wide celebration. No matter what Georgia does to change its luck against Florida, the result usually stays the same. The Gators own this series. Tim Tebow accounted for four touchdowns, A.J. Jones had two huge interceptions and top-ranked Florida beat the Bulldogs, 41-17, on Saturday for its 17th win in the last 20 meetings between the Southeastern Conference rivals. The Gators (8-0, 6-0) extended the nation's longest winning streak to 18 games and clinched the SEC East title when Tennessee beat South Carolina later Saturday.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Matthew Stafford gave the type of performance in the Capital One Bowl that would make a fitting finale to his excellent Georgia career. Whether this was his last game with the Bulldogs, the junior quarterback hasn't decided. Stafford threw three touchdown passes in the final 18 minutes against No. 19 Michigan State, connecting with Knowshon Moreno for the clinching score in the 16th-ranked Bulldogs' 24-12 victory Thursday. "It's going to be an extremely hard decision," Stafford said of his decision regarding the NFL draft.

Georgia's prime minister resigned, citing health reasons after just three months on the job as President Mikheil Saakashvili's second-in-command. Saakashvili later nominated the outgoing premier's top deputy to become prime minister, his fifth in the five years since his election following Georgia's so-called Rose Revolution. Grigol Mgaloblishvili said health problems had made it difficult for him to give the job his full effort as Georgia struggles to recover from its August war with Russia and to keep the economy going.

Tests have confirmed that peanut butter made from peanuts processed at a Texas plant contains the same strain of salmonella blamed for sickening hundreds in a national outbreak, federal officials said. The test results offer new evidence that the outbreak attributed to a peanut plant in Georgia may have more than one source. Both the Texas and Georgia plants were operated by Peanut Corp. of America. The outbreak prompted one of the largest food recalls in U.S. history and may have contributed to nine deaths.

Four members of an alleged assisted suicide ring were charged Wednesday with helping a 58-year-old Georgia man end his life, and investigators in eight other states were looking into whether the group was involved in more deaths. The FBI is also probing the Final Exit Network, an organization whose Web site said it is "dedicated to serving people who are suffering from an intolerable condition." On Wednesday, investigators raided homes of the group's volunteers in seven of the states, a group office in Georgia and a company in Montana that authorities said supplied items used in suicides.

Vice President Joe Biden pledged that the federal government would help Georgia recover from the severe weather that swept through the Southeast, even as rain was forecast for the weekend. Biden toured the metro Atlanta area by helicopter and saw portions of the city still under water from the deluge this week. At least 11 deaths in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee were blamed on the storms. The vice president visited residents staying at a Red Cross shelter in Cobb County. Gov. Sonny Perdue announced that the number of counties eligible for federal aid had increased to 14.

No sooner had the Greyfield Inn ferryboat chugged out of the Fernandina Beach, Fla., marina when somebody popped the question. "All right, let's get this over with," said Jerry, a brash, 40-ish businessman on vacation from Atlanta. With a cold Busch beer in one hand and a bag of boiled peanuts in the other, he looked at the young woman in the Greyfield Inn uniform, offered a charming, crooked smile and asked, "Did you see any of them from the wedding?"

Eddie "Iceberg" Chastain, a 385-pound wrestler with a shaved head and a red goatee, calls himself the Being of Inconceivable Horror. In the ring, he wields a fork -- just like his mentor, Abdullah the Butcher. He pummels his opponents with cross-face forearms, levels them with clotheslines and crushes them with avalanche splashes. But outside the ring he has begun to show a softer side. "You know, it's not actually my intent to hurt my opponent," he said in a telephone interview last week.

A drifter accused of kidnapping and decapitating a 24-year-old hiker in Georgia is a suspect in the slaying of a Florida woman whose body was found last month in a national forest, authorities said in Dawsonville. Gary Hilton, 61, made his first court appearance on a murder charge. He was ordered held without bail.