Ken Stanford

Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, adding to evidence that hiring will pick up this year.

Riverside Military Academy (RMA) welcomed Marine Lt. Col. Randy Bresnik, a NASA astronaut, to campus Wednesday.

Atlanta-based Wendy's/Arby's Group Inc. says it is considering selling its Arby's business.

State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler said today that Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 10.2 percent in December, up two-tenths of a percentage point from a revised 10 percent in November.

The search for an Elbert County man wanted for questioning in the murder of a South Carolina woman ended in Lavonia Wednesday.

United Way of Hall County announced a $25,000 match for donations from new donors Wednesday.

Federal prosecutors have dismantled a three-man ring accused of plotting to smuggle semiautomatic assault rifles across the border to Mexico.

State climatologist David Stooksbury says that despite last week's snowfall, north Georgia is having a dry winter.

Builders began work last year on the second fewest number of homes in more than half a century, as the weak economy kept people from buying houses.

As the newly Republican U.S. House prepared to vote on repealing President Barack Obama's landmark health overhaul, Gov. Nathan Deal warned that the federal law's Medicaid mandates could cost Georgia $2.5 billion in state dollars over the next decade.