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Many of us don't think about our credit score until it's time to make a major purchase or open a charge account. But that three-digit number affects a lot more than your credit. It can have a bearing on your auto insurance rates.

Name: Jeff Cook

Title: Craftsman

Age: 49

Salary range: $40,000-$70,000. "I do a lot of bartering, so it's hard to tell," Cook said.

Click here or scroll down to watch video of Cook making a serving tray out of material from a wine barrel.

What he does: Cook designs and constructs functional and beautiful home decor from wine barrels. With the help of his wife, Debbie Cook, he produces about 30 different products, such as chairs, tables, wine racks, plates, bowls and pot rests. The couple sell their wares throughout the Southeast at arts and crafts shows as well as in several retail stores.

Cook uses every piece of each recycled wine barrel, even the nails. The bands are bent into moons, stars, angels and other decorations for porches and decks, and the scraps of wood, all of them flavored by the wine they held, are recycled into smoking and grilling chips.

Name: Greg Clements

Business management lecture

ATLANTA - "It'll be done in two weeks."

Anyone who's dealt with a contractor who plays fast and loose with deadlines, or is familiar with the depths of residential contracting as portrayed in the film "The Money Pit," knows that phrase is a death knell for getting a home improvement job done.

People who've heard it have probably even wished contractors were held to some type of standards. They'll soon get their wish. Starting Tuesday, residential and general contractors in Georgia will fall under the purview of the state's Professional Licensing Boards Division, which has laid out minimum standards of practice, and accompanying penalties for violators, in an industry that receives a fair share of the consumer complaints lodged in the state. Georgia will join roughly 30 other states that license such contractors.

NEW YORK - Investors who remember the stock market's steep and prolonged decline earlier this decade may be wondering if the recovery from Wall Street's current morass will also take several years to accomplish.

ATLANTA - Pick up a newspaper or surf the Georgia Secretary of State's Web site and you'll probably notice the state's licensing boards seem busier.

SAVANNAH-CHATHAM County Superintendent of Schools Thomas Lockamy earned the nearly 9 percent boost in pay and perks that the elected school board gave him last week.

Coach Spellman was a role model

Helping Hands, a Bryan County organization of volunteers created to assist elderly, handicapped and unfortunate citizens of Bryan County will hold two work sessions this summer, June 26-28 and July 31-Aug. 2.

Private burial services for Uga VI, the University of Georgia's beloved mascot, will be held at 3 p.m. today at Sanford Stadium.

You now can find out online how many write-in votes Atlanta Braves infielder Jerry Royster got in the 1982 Georgia gubernatorial election, thanks to the University of Georgia.

Thieves stole $12,000 in golf clubs, tennis rackets and computers from a South Lumpkin Street home, Athens-Clarke police said.

A smash and grab theft was caught on tape early Sunday morning at a North Avenue convenience store, Athens-Clarke police said.

A 1995 Toyota Tacoma pickup truck valued at $1,000 was stolen from the parking lot of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on Pulaski Street, Athens-Clarke police said.

Earlier this month, the Washington Post reported some U.S. Army troops returning from Afghanistan and Iraq and dealing with post-traumatic stress disorder were being housed in a newly built "warrior transition" facility at Georgia's Fort Benning located "about 200 yards away" from active firing ranges, a situation that experts told the newspaper subjected the afflicted warriors to a continual trigger for the disorder.

So all we know for sure is that something happened in Gloucester, Mass. What that something was depends on whom you believe.

Comment from sanderlinsghost on the Supreme Court's recent decision overturning a Washington, D.C., law restricting gun ownership: