Ken Stanford

School districts in Georgia now have an extra month to decide how many teachers they will hire for next year.

A young man who was a pitcher for the West Hall High School baseball team has lost his fight with cancer.

The widow of a Lavonia minister who was shot and killed during a botched drug bust in Toccoa last year has filed suit over the incident.

A 21-year-old Cumming man died late Monday night when his car collided with a tree on Tribble Gap Road, Forsyth County Sheriff Ted Paxton said Tuesday.

Polls are open for city council elections in Gillsville and Commerce today.

Public safety is at issue says a group of south Gainesville residents who want sidewalks in their area.

A sharply divided Georgia Supreme Court on Monday upheld a key part of a sweeping 2005 law that made it more difficult for patients to win medical malpractice cases involving emergency health care providers.

An automotive parts manufacturer is adding nearlly 200 jobs at its northeast Georgia plant.

Trent Edward Wright, 38, Cumming, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Timothy C. Batten, Sr. to serve one-to-nine months in federal prison on a mail fraud charge involving a mortgage fraud scheme which
victimized lenders and title insurance companies.

Two people were injured, both critically, in a fire in downtown Commerce Sunday.