Ken Stanford

President Barack Obama and his gun control allies say Senate rejection of expanded background checks and other restrictions won't stop their drive to reduce firearms violence. But their path to enacting gun curbs this year seems blocked by the National Rifle Association, and supporters of restrictions appear befuddled about what it will take to push legislation through this Congress.

The painstaking work to identify a bombing suspect from reams of Boston Marathon footage yielded a possible breakthrough as investigators focused on a man seen dropping off a bag, and then walking away from the site of the second of two deadly explosions.

The wife of a former judge was charged Wednesday with capital murder in connection with the slayings of a North Texas district attorney, his wife and an assistant prosecutor, a law enforcement official said.

Carol Carson, Vice President of Administrative Services at North Georgia Technical College (NGTC) announces that Brad Stancil has accepted the Accountant position in the Business Office at the school.

Authorities investigating the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon have recovered a piece of circuit board that they believe was part of one of the explosive devices, and also found the lid of a pressure cooker that apparently was catapulted onto the roof of a nearby building, an official said Wednesday.

Company officials say the closing of a Pratt & Whitney engine repair and maintenance center in San Antonio, Texas, will bring jobs to Columbus within a year.

The Hall County Sheriff

Representative Doug Collins has been named Vice Chair on the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa.

Technicians upgrading Iran's main uranium enrichment facility have tripled their installations of high-tech machines that could be used in a nuclear weapons program to more than 600 in the last three months, diplomats said Wednesday.