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Frank N. Simpson of Gainesville has been elected the 2011 president of the CCIM Institute, an international commercial real estate organization with 15,000 members worldwide.

Ten Gainesville area businesspeople are being recognized this morning as "Entrepreneurs - Masters of Innovation" in a ceremony taking place at the Featherbone Communiversity.

Initial unemployments claims in Georgia in September were down 18.7 percent compared to August.

A new traffic signal at a busy Braselton intersection is scheduled to become operational Thursday.

Republican Nathan Deal now holds a 10-point lead over Democrat Roy Barnes in Georgia's gubernatorial race, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state.

A powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that pounded villages on remote islands off western Indonesia, killing at least 23 people and leaving more than 160 others missing, witnesses and officials said Tuesday.

The Barrow County Sheriff

Rushton & Company has announced that Devin Webb has joined the firm as a Tax Associate.

Dr. Susan Herbst, University System of Georgia (USG) executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer, has announced the appointment of the North Georgia College & State University (NGC&SU) Presidential Search Committee.

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