Taxpayers lost money on another failed alternative energy company when an ethanol plant went on the auction block earlier this month, leaving the U.S. government and the state of Georgia holding the bag on $87 million in unpaid loans and wasted grants.

Four Christian groups at Vanderbilt University soon could be kicked off campus as school administrators quietly adopt a policy that prohibits student organizations from holding members or leaders to any standard of belief or behavior.

JOHNS CREEK, Ga.-Don Hart had never had anyone ask for his autograph. So on Thursday morning he seemed surprised when three young students with wide eyes and big smiles surrounded him and asked him to sign a small poster bordered with a red, white, and blue banner.

"I don't know why they wanted my autograph," he said with a chuckle. "I'm just a regular veteran."

Hart, 71, might not think of himself as a celebrity, but to the students at Perimeter School, a private Christian school just north of Atlanta, he was something better-a hero.