Ken Stanford

First-time unemployment insurance claims in Georgia in March were down more than 9 percent compared to a year ago.

Two acts of vandalism in downtown Gainesville have been turned over to the Gainesville-Hall County Gang Task Force.

February exports of U.S. poultry meat increased by more than 15 percent in quantity and nearly 18 percent in value over the same month in 2010, according to trade data from the Foreign Agricultural Service and the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council.

The University of Georgia says its network of automated weather stations - which includes one at Gainesville State College - will remain open for now.

Standard & Poor's warning that it could downgrade the United States' credit rating sent Asian stock markets tumbling on Tuesday.

President Barack Obama has marshaled the likes of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the mayors of New York and San Antonio and Philadelphia's police commissioner in an attempt to show wide and varied support for an overhaul of the nation's immigration laws.

The Georgia Board of Regents is set to raise tuition during its monthly meeting this week.

The start of the annual summer ban on outdoor burning begins in less than two weeks in more than 50 north Georgia counties.

Lakeview Academy Upper School English teacher, Crystal Beach has been selected as a 2011 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Emerging Leader.

Georgia's agriculture commissioner says his department will soon begin to look into whether Georgia can legally start its own guest worker program.