Ken Stanford

While world finance leaders say the global economy has improved slightly this year, they said the outlook for the future was uneven with growth and job creation still too weak.

China slammed the human rights record of the United States in response to Washington's report on rights around the world, saying that U.S. military operations have infringed on rights abroad and that political donations at home have thwarted the country's democracy.

An all-too-familiar springtime ritual played out around the nation's heartland through the weekend as volunteers, National Guardsmen and even prison inmates joined together in an effort to ward off fast-rising floodwaters.

As the lone surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing lay hospitalized under heavy guard, the American Civil Liberties Union and a federal public defender raised concerns about investigators' plan to question 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev without reading him his Miranda rights.

A 2,000-square-foot addition to Good News Clinics in Gainesville is about ready to begin taking shape.

First-time claims for unemployment insurance (UI) were down 13.3 percent in Georgia last month compared to March 2012. Meanwhile, job creation in the state was up by 1.9 percent compared to a year ago.

All of the festivals and other outdoor springtime events taking place this weekend are just a prelude to what has become one of the largest such events in the Gainesville area: the Spring Chicken Festival.

A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead.

Elachee Nature Science Center has been selected to receive a $4,000 grant as part of the Restaurant Community Grants program from the Darden Foundation, the charitable arm of Darden Restaurants, Inc.

A Cumming woman has grabbed a quarter-of-a-million dollars by playing the Georgia Lottery's Mega Millions game.