Ken Stanford

Hall County schools bettered the national average in ten of twelve categories on the fall Iowa Test of Basic Skills (ITBS).

For the seventh straight month, revenues are on the rise in Georgia.

Confronting President Barack Obama, the new Republican-led House took a first step Friday toward a symbolic vote to repeal his landmark health care overhaul law, which would provide coverage to more than 30 million now uninsured.

The new chairman of the Forsyth County Commission is Brian Tam.

Gasoline prices in north Georgia moved above $3.00-a-gallon in many places this week.

The nation's unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent last month, its lowest level in 19 months. That was because more people found jobs, but also because some people gave up on their job searches.

Former Tyson Foods Inc. chief executive Donald J. Tyson, who led his family's poultry company from being a regional producer to dominance in the industry while instilling a corporate culture that mixed hard work and enjoyment, died Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Deal move in to a nice little place in Buckhead.

Amtrak service between New York and New Orleans on the Crescent which serves north Georgia will be temporarily halted four days a week starting Monday for track improvements between Atlanta and New Orleans.

It shares part of its name with an older and better known agency but Good News Clinics hope exposure from its participation in Saturday's "With A Servant's Heart's Day of Services" initiative will increase public awareness of it and what it offers.