Ken Stanford

Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and House Speaker David Ralston weighed-in Tuesday on the immigration reform issue.

A public transit spokesman says a woman who jumped onto the tracks and was hit by a train at a rail station in downtown Atlanta suffered only minor injuries.

A Macon television station reports that some Georgia taxpayers who receive refunds by direct deposit have seen the money disappear from their accounts.

Georgia's economy, education, water and transportation are the issues state lawmakers will be focused on during this year's legislative session.

Members of the Honeysuckle Homeowners Association assembled in a cold rain along Thompson Bridge Road Tuesday morning at the intersection of Springview Drive to protest the possible location of a new Wal-Mart store in North Gainesville.

A resolution has been introduced in the state House of Representatives honoring Judge Sidney O. Smith, Jr., of Gainesville.

The naysayers and critics of Gainesville's now 10-year-old public bus system see a "white elephant" instead of a Red Rabbit, pointing to the many empty and near-empty buses they see cruising streets and roads throughout the county.

The Hall County Board of Education moved ahead Monday night with plans to make up days already missed this winter because of snow and ice.

Sen. Johnny Isakson says bankruptcy could be a good solution for struggling states straining under pension debt.

A spokeswoman for Moscow's busiest airport says 35 people have been killed by an explosion in its international arrivals hall.