Local/State News

A last-minute turnaround left the stock market with small gains for the day - enough to leave major U.S. indexes at new all-time highs.

The man accused of holding three women captive in his Cleveland home for about a decade was charged Friday with hundreds of additional counts covering the entire time period of the alleged imprisonment.

A jury began deliberating George Zimmerman's fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a wannabe cop who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his life.

A federal judge has ordered permanent changes to Georgia's federal election calendar, including one that will make next year's primary election much earlier than planned.

UPS shares tumbled Friday after it predicted disappointing second-quarter earnings and reduced its profit forecast for the full year.

A tiny Georgia town and a national gun control group are facing off in a legal battle over a city ordinance requiring gun ownership, with the constitutionality of the law and broader messages about gun rights taking center stage.

Hall County will host two events this weekend that will attract thousands of lacrosse and bicycle racing enthusiasts.

The Braselton Town Council recently honored the first chairman of the Downtown Development Authority upon his retirement from the board after four years of service.

One of the Chinese teenagers who died in the Asiana Airlines disaster was struck by a fire truck while she was covered in foam that crews had sprayed to douse the fire aboard the plane, police said Friday.

A prosecutor in George Zimmerman's murder trial has ended his rebuttal, saying the neighborhood watch volunteer told a series of lies in his statements about shooting Trayvon Martin.