Ken Stanford

Local law enforcement officers and the Georgia State Patrol are getting ready for Christmas weekend.

Today is the deadline for the U.S. Department of Justice to rule on Georgia's redrawn legislative maps.

We may in for some pre-holiday nasty weather today, weather that is more like spring time than Christmas time.

The number of people applying for unemployment benefits dropped last week to its lowest level since April 2008 and other figures released Thursday show the economy grew more slowly during the summer than thought.

We may be about to see a turnaround in the fortunes of Lake Lanier.

A wave of at least 14 bombings ripped across Baghdad Thursday morning, killing at least 60 people in the worst violence in Iraq for months.

All lanes of I-85 southbound near Buford, closed for a time this morning because of a wreck involving two tractor trailers and a car, have reopened.

State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says the unemployment rate in Hall County decreased to 7.7 percent in November, down six-tenths of a percentage point from 8.3 percent in October.

Georgia investigators used DNA and other evidence to link the slaying of a 13-year-old girl who went missing in 1974 with a serial killer who was blamed for murdering at least 18 people, authorities said Wednesday.