Ken Stanford

Hurricane Earl, now a powerful Category 4 storm, barreled toward the U.S. coast early Tuesday after battering tiny islands across the northeastern Caribbean with heavy rain and winds that damaged homes and toppled power lines.

A roadside bomb attack killed four U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody spell that has left 18 service members dead since Saturday.

Gainesville city officials are expecting to get a report around the first of the year on equalizing administrative water/sewer service fees in Gainesville and Hall County.

A Dawsonville man has been arrested after drug agents say they found several different types of drugs and a stolen shotgun, all at his home near an elementary school.

Ribbon-cutting and open house are planned early next month for a new fire station in Dawson County that will also serve other purposes.

A trip to DisneyWorld of the Flowery Branch High School Chorus is officially "off," one week after Hall County school board members raised questions about it.

Consumer spending rose in July at the fastest pace in four months, helped by a jump in demand for automobiles.

The tri-state water war was a hot topic at the first debate between gubernatorial candidates Roy Barnes and Nathan Deal.

Jones P. "Jay" Andrews, Vice President/General Manager of the Internet/New Media Division of Jacobs Media Corp. in Gainesville, has been nominated for a 2010 Career Achievement Award by the Georgia Radio Museum and Hall of Fame.

Memorials were planned across the Gulf Coast Sunday from New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward to Biloxi, Miss., to mourn the hundreds who died when Katrina hit on Aug. 29, 2005.