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Voters may not know it, but the millions of dollars paying for ads on ballot measures they will consider next month come from large companies and national advocacy groups.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that the unemployment rate for the Northeast Georgia region, as well as the Gainesville metro, dropped for the month of September.

Stocks ended Wednesday lower, breaking a four-day winning streak, as a drop in the price of oil dragged energy companies lower.

A career Toccoa police officer, who served as interim police chief numerous times over the years, will be remembered in funeral services Thursday.

More than 3,100 students - nearly half of them athletes - enrolled in classes they didn't have to show up for and received artificially inflated grades in what an investigator called a "shadow curriculum" that lasted nearly two decades at the University of North Carolina.

Gainesville tax bills should arrive in the mail this week.

The U.S. government is now urging owners of nearly 8 million cars and trucks to have the air bags repaired because of potential danger to drivers and passengers. But the effort is being complicated by confusing information and a malfunctioning website.

The Gainesville Area Employer Committee of the Georgia Department of Labor is hosting a leadership seminar in November at "The Oaks" at Lanier Charter Career Academy in Oakwood.