Ken Stanford

A bomb scare scattered hundreds of workers Tuesday from a downtown federal building that houses Internal Revenue Service offices, but authorities later determined the suspicious package that caused the evacuation was harmless.

A Commerce science teacher is one of 103 teachers from around the country named by President Obama to receive this year's Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching.

A Gainesville woman was arrested Monday morning after her 4-year-old daughter wandered away from home while she was asleep.

Barrow County EMS is getting a $71,389 grant from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to cover the purchase of personal protective equipment for the county's firefighters.

Two more American troops were killed in Afghanistan on Tuesday, the military said, extending a spike of bloodshed into a second day and pushing the NATO losses in the country to 23 in just over a week.

Helen Thomas, the opinionated White House correspondent who used her seat in the front row of history to grill 10 presidents and often exasperate them, lost her storied perch Monday in a flap over calling on Israelis to get "out of Palestine."

Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway says the Immigration and Customs Enforcement program his department is involved in, has drastically reduced the number of arrests of unlicensed drivers.

Two men charged with killing an undercover sheriff's deputy after he broke into their house in an early morning raid are challenging the state law that allows prosecutors to seek the death penalty.

Gainesville police investigating a report of a robbery/assault that occurred during a cab ride.

Stocks are rising slightly in early trading as investors remain cautious entering a new week of trading.