Ken Stanford

Brenau Academy this year is shifting its focus to an "early college" program.

The Gwinnett County Commission approved a 2011 budget that cuts funding for libraries and social services but still doesn't balance spending with falling tax collections.

April 1 will be a regular school day for Gainesville schools instead of a furlough day as originally planned.

United Community Banks, Inc. plans to defer regularly scheduled interest payments on its $54.6 million of outstanding debt.

A robbery suspect who was injured when his car wrecked during a chase with Gainesville police overnight is hospitalized in Atlanta.

The city of Winder has paid a former finance official and her attorneys about $250,000 to settle a lawsuit in which she claimed that she was fired after filing a sexual harassment complaint.

Norcross Cooperative Ministry (NCM) is a faith -based, non-profit ecumenical ministry dedicated to providing emergency assistance to families in parts of Gwinnett County and is another of the Georgia non-profits participating in Saturday's "With A Servant's Heart," an initiative of Governor-elect Nathan Deal, calling attention to volunteerism in the state.

Forsyth County is making an extra effort to provide more
opportunities to local small businesses by extending the Local Small Business Initiative (LSBI) through December 31, 2011.

Police in Gwinnett County are without one of the key tools they use to catch speeders.

South Carolina textile magnate Roger Milliken, who at one time was ranked among the nation's wealthiest people and helped turn the state's Republican Party into a powerhouse, was buried Monday.