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A political gambit by an endangered Senate Democrat broke loose long-stalled legislation to force approval of the Keystone XL pipeline as the lame-duck Congress returned to a Capitol where results of last week's GOP blowout are still sinking in.

According to the State Road and Tollway Authority's (SRTA) website Peach Pass customers can now drive on Florida and North Carolina toll roads without having to stop at toll booths or receive a separate bill in the mail.

The average price of gasoline will be below $3 a gallon in 2015, the Energy Department predicted Wednesday. If the sharply lower estimate holds true, U.S. consumers will save $61 billion on gas compared with this year.

Big banks weighed on the stock market Wednesday, tugging major indexes back from record highs.

The first of two newly-scheduled public input meetings on a proposal to extend a Hall County sales tax will be held Thursday

Eight Gainesville area business people were recognized Wednesday at the annual "Entrepreneurs - Masters of Innovation" ceremony at Featherbone Communiversity.

As the North Georgia Community Foundation (NGCF) joins other such groups around the country in celebrating Community Foundation Week starting today, it is preparing to mark its 30th anniversary next year.

The government is getting near-daily reports - and sometimes two or three a day - of drones flying near airplanes and helicopters or close to airports without permission, federal and industry officials tell The Associated Press. It's a sharp increase from just two years ago when such reports were still unusual.

A groundbreaking agreement struck Wednesday by the United States and China puts the world's two worst polluters on a faster track to curbing the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming.