Ken Stanford

Despite the lingering effects of the Great Recession, Amtrak ridership hit an all-time high in fiscal 2010.

No one was injured in a couple of early morning fires Monday in Gainesville.

The federal government hired two additional judges and is planning to appoint two more to help clear a massive backlog of deportation cases in Georgia's immigration courts.

A powerful storm that unleashed snow and strong winds across the upper Midwest left behind dangerously cold temperatures, promising a new set of challenges for people working to dig out. And, snow blanketed parts of north Georgia Monday morning.

An outbuilding on Truelove Road was destroyed by fire early Sunday afternoon, according to Hall County Fire Chief David Kimbrell.

Callie Sartain was named Belle of the Ball at the 59th annual Junior League of Gainesville-Hall County Charity Ball Saturday night.

Farmers across the South are still contending with abnormally dry weather and a drought that began this spring.

Thirteen Buford residents were arrested in Friday's simultaneous drug raids on several houses in Buford. That's according to Gwinnett County police who released new information about the results of the four-month undercover operation Saturday.

Gainesville State College held its Summer/Fall Commencement Saturday morning.

The eldest son of disgraced financier Bernard Madoff hanged himself by a dog leash in his apartment Saturday after two years of "unrelenting pressure" following his father's arrest in a multibillion-dollar fraud that enveloped the entire family, law enforcement officials and a family attorney said.