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Gay rights activists were kissing at Chick-fil-A stores across the country Friday, just days after the company set a sales record when customers flocked to the restaurants to show support for the fast-food chain president's opposition to gay marriage.

Several banks in the immediate Gainesville area are on a list of the 369 safest in the county, according to a new report.

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) Friday awarded 17 contracts for more than $55 million in new transportation infrastructure improvements across the state, including two for $9 million for work in Forsyth County.

President Barack Obama got new jobs figures Friday to buttress his argument that he's presiding over steady, if slow, economic growth. But the government's report that the overall rate of unemployment actually crept up by one-tenth of a point allows Republican Mitt Romney to keep pressure on Obama to defend his record.

A Cleveland manufacturing company plans to hire more than 70 employees and will continue a job fair this week in effort to fill those positions.

Gov. Nathan Deal is asking state agencies to find another $553 million in reductions through June 2014.

People in Athens, Canton, Dalton, Dawsonville and Milledgeville now have the choice, through AT&T, of what the company says is "a new low-cost alternative to traditional home phone service."

U.S. employers added 163,000 jobs in July, a hopeful sign after three months of sluggish hiring but the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent, from 8.2 percent in June.

As demand for locally grown fruits and vegetables has increased, so too has the number of urban farmers markets sprouting up across the nation.

Chick-fil-A set a one-day sales record on Wednesday amid an ongoing controversy over a company executive's public stance for traditional marriage, company officials said Thursday.