Ken Stanford

The Georgia Department of Labor says the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined slightly last month.

A fatal traffic accident in Banks County overnight left a portion of I-85 closed for a time.

A 66-year-old man has drowned in Lake Lanier.

In a battle of morality versus modernism, the state Senate signed off on a bill that would allow local governments to ask voters whether to allow the sale of alcohol at grocery and liquor stores on Sundays.

A Hall County sheriff's deputy who was injured along with three other people Tuesday night in a wreck on Candler Highway was treated at Northeast Georgia Medical Center and released.

The Gwinnett County Commission approved two recommendations on Tuesday that finished closing the county's $18 million 2011 budget deficit.

All Georgia executions are off after federal drug agents seized the state's supply of a sedative used in lethal injections that has been challenged by capital punishment critics and death-row inmates, including a man recently executed who called the British exporter of the drug a ``fly-by-night supplier.''

Hall County Schools Supt. Will Schofield said Wednesday it won't be long before the school system begins work on some of the projects to be funded by the SPLOST that was approved Tuesday.

The Gainesville City Council has opened the books again on a proposal to have the mayor elected instead of appointed from members of the council.

Wholesale prices jumped last month by the most in nearly two years while new home construction dropped to their lowest in nearly two years.