Ken Stanford

The doors have barely closed on another school year and already the Hall County School Board is poised to approve the calendar for the coming school year.

The Muscular Dystrophy Association reports that the 25th Annual Mansfield Oil MDA Golf Classic raised a record $350,000 to help MDA speed research seeking treatments for progressive muscle diseases affecting more than a million Americans.

One person was life-flighted to a Chattanooga hospital Sunday after a motorcyle and a car collided in Lumpkin County.

Four years ago today an Army Private from Gainesville who gained worldwide attention when he was wounded in Afghanistan was honored as part of the Memorial Day ceremony at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Endeavour and its crew of six left the International Space Station and headed home to close out NASA's next-to-last shuttle flight, pausing just long enough Monday to perform a victory lap and test equipment for a future interplanetary ship.

Certain groups should may want to curtail their outside Memorial Day activities today.

Face to face with the legions of homeless and the bereaved, President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the apocalyptic landscape left by Missouri's killer tornado, consoled the community and committed the government to helping rebuild shattered lives.

Herman Williams came home safely after fighting in the jungles of Vietnam as a Marine. He was shocked to learn four decades later that his military service had again placed him in jeopardy - this time, because he got a tooth pulled.

Nearly a decade later, after more than 1,400 killed in combat, some U.S. troops paused for a moment Sunday to remember what brought America to Afghanistan and to honor the lives that continue to be lost.

The top Republican in the Senate said Sunday that a controversial House Medicare plan is "on the table" as President Barack Obama and his GOP rivals wrestle over budget cuts to enact this summer.