Ken Stanford

With the official start of winter still week away, federal funds to help the poor pay heating bills have already been exhausted in Atlanta. In addition, Gainesville-based Ninth District Opportunity (NDO) which administers such funds in 13 northeast Georgia counties says it will not start its program today as planned.

The woman who says she had a long-running extramarital affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a single mother and Atlanta-area businesswoman who has faced repeated financial trouble and once lost a lawsuit accusing her of spreading damaging lies about an ex-business partner.

Some 60 law enforcement officers from a variety of agencies converged on two scrap metal businesses in Stephens County Wednesday to serve search warrants and make arrests.

A Republican state lawmaker has prefiled legislation that would require recipients of unemployment benefits to perform community service.

A man struck and killed while walking on a metro Atlanta freeway was identified after relatives in North Carolina received photos of his tattoos.
But family members of 26-year-old Calvin ``Cal'' Key Wilson Jr. say they're still struggling to understand what led to his death. They also want to learn more about how he died in the predawn darkness Friday on Interstate 85.

Law enforcement officers raided two Stephens County businesses engaged in the practice of buying metals for recycling and re-sale Wednesday morning... Whitlock

The costs for two planned reservoirs in Dawson and Hall counties are singled out as a state water conservation group attacks the governor's water supply program, saying it ignores water conservation funding.

It doesn't appear to have been a drought-breaking but November was the wettest month in many places in North Georgia since June.

An Atlanta businesswoman who has asserted she had a longstanding affair with Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain stood by her story Wednesday despite his denials, saying she was not proud to admit it.

Is the check in the mail? Thursday is the deadline for payment of the final installment of Hall County property taxes.