Ken Stanford

New claims for unemployment benefits fell more than expected last week as layoffs ease and hiring slowly recovers.

Gov. Sonny Perdue is butting heads with the state's top lawyer, threatening to ``go it alone'' and sue the federal government over a new federal health care law. And, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and other Republicans leaders are urging Perdue to file suit anyway.

Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama's newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House.

The Senate has approved legislation that would provide financial incentives to encourage local law enforcement to use a federal program aimed at identifying illegal immigrants arrested in Georgia.

Georgia's attorney general said his office won't join in a lawsuit seeking to overturn a sweeping healthcare reform bill signed into law Tuesday by President Barack Obama.

The body of the husband of a Brenau University official, who was reported missing Tuesday night, has been found at the foot of Stone Mountain.

Plans are in the works for an office/retail center on Cleveland Highway south Clermont.

At least two more races will apparently be on the ballot in some places April 27 when voters in the 9th Congressinal District go to the polls in a special congressional election.

A new national report shows black and Hispanic eighth-graders in Georgia are gaining on their white counterparts in reading.

More than 1 million baby slings made by Infantino were recalled Wednesday after claims linking them to three infant deaths.