Ken Stanford

Two Hall County men were recently promoted to new positions with the state Department of Transportation.

Georgia Department of Transportation Commissioner, Vance C. Smith, Jr. recently honored Kay Reeceed at this year

An idea that was planted just a couple of years ago sprouted first into a plan, then a full-grown reality in White Street Park in Suwanee's Old Town district. The Harvest Farm Community Garden, on a seven-acre plot of land that used to be known as the Williams farm, is bursting with color - flowers, vegetables, herbs and dirt so rich you can smell it.

Hackers launched a "significant and tenacious" cyber attack on Lockheed Martin, a major defense contractor holding highly sensitive information, but its secrets remained safe, the company said Saturday.

For a small cadre of CIA veterans, the death of Osama bin Laden was more than just a national moment of relief and closure. It was also a measure of payback, a settling of a score for a pair of deaths, the details of which have remained a secret for 13 years.

Gainesville police will begin closing streets at 9:00 Monday for the annual Memorial Day Parade down Green Street.

GAINESVILLE - Hall County offices are closed until Wednesday morning.

In addition to taking Monday off for Memorial Day, county employees will be observing another of those unpaid furlough days on Tuesday. However, the landfill and trash compactor sites are among the public works and public safety operations that will operate regular hours.


Many county services are always available online: residents can renew a vehicle tag or business license, find a new pet, pay taxes, and more at hallcounty.org.

Hall County, like other local governments around the country, has been using furlough days to help cut expenses for a couple of years because of the recession.

A Taliban suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up inside a heavily guarded compound Saturday as top Afghan and international officials left a meeting, killing two senior Afghan police commanders and wounding the German general who commands coalition troops in northern Afghanistan.

Three mornings a week, when Becky Leung gets ready for work, her boyfriend is just getting home from his overnight job. When her mother drops hints about her twin sister's marriage, she laughs it off. And when she thinks about getting married herself, she worries first about her career.

The landing gear of a Delta Air Lines jet apparently caught fire during a rough landing Saturday afternoon at Atlanta's main airport, but the flight's approximately 50 passengers and crew were evacuated safely, authorities said.