Ken Stanford

As the crude crept closer to Florida, the risky effort to contain the nation's worst oil spill hit a snag Wednesday when a diamond-edged saw became stuck in a thick pipe on a blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf.

The purple glow at Northeast Georgia Medical Center this week is there for a reason... and not just to draw attention to the hospital.

A stolen car and house burglary involves investigators from two northeast Georgia counties and a homeowner who returned home to find police processing the place as a crime scene.

Los Angeles County is joining the economic boycott over Arizona's illegal immigration law.

As submersible robots made another risky attempt to control the underwater Gulf oil gusher, the crude on the surface spread, closing in on Florida.

A soldier killed in a Colorado Springs wreck has been identified as 28-year-old John DeLong of Gainesville.

Georgia is trying again for some federal "Race to the Top" education funds and is adding three new school districts in the process.

A graveside service is planned Friday for former longtime Gainesville Director of Public Works who died over the weekend at the age of 88.

A Barrow County woman's appeal of her murder conviction has been rejected by the state Supreme Court.

Construction activity surged in April by the largest amount in nearly a decade.