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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told Congress Thursday that he saw encouraging signs that the country's first recession in a decade could soon end.

Kenneth L. Lay stepped down as chairman and chief executive of Enron Corp. after watching the the company he built into an energy giant tumble into bankruptcy.

The Board of Directors of GB&T Bancshares Inc. declared a cash dividend of 8 cents per share for the quarter ending Dec. 31, 2001.

Judy Presley, CRB, GRI, of the Hall County
Board of REALTORS has been elected as vice president of professional development.

Forty years after Samuel Moore Walton opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City store in Rogers, Ark., the 4,150-store global retail chain that now sells everything from children's clothing to hunting equipment is poised to become the world's larges

Four people face charges in what the FBI described as a $32 million check-kiting scheme to defraud Michigan National Bank.

The Kroger Co. is building a huge warehouse on a site along U.S. 36 on the east side of the city that will employ more than 600 people.

Afghanistan's national carrier made its first international flight Thursday in nearly 2

Most female managers earned less compared with men in 2000 than they did five years earlier, according to a congressional study of 10 industries.

An environmental organization is asking the state to protect Georgia coastal waters, saying pollution is responsible for the steep decline in the seafood industry.