Ken Stanford

The long wait is over. The citizen-soldiers of Georgia's 48th Infantry Brigade - which includes Gainesville's Charlie Company - began arriving home Tuesday morning after a nearly year-long deployment to Afghanistan.

A memorial celebration will be held Feb. 27 at 1:00 at the Wesley Wood retirement home in Newnan, Ga., for Elizabeth Rhodes.

The Gainesville Police Department has again been selected as a Flagship Agency by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA).

A former Banks County deputy tax commissioner has been charged with computer fraud in connection with a scheme to lower taxes for several acquaintances.

Making a last-ditch effort to save his health care overhaul, President Barack Obama on Monday put forward a nearly $1 trillion, 10-year compromise that would allow the government review of insurance premium increases.

North Georgia College & State University's Corps of Cadets has been named the top Army ROTC battalion in the nation by Cadet Command and the MacArthur Foundation.

The next chapter in the ongoing controversy over where a new North Hall library should be located is expected to be written today.

A Flowery Branch family is mourning the loss of two brothers who died in a fiery wreck early Sunday.

Ten people were taken to the hospital Sunday night after their van wrecked near Murravyille.

Curling is back! And, I don't mean what some people do to their hair. (They still do that, don't they?) I'm talking about the sport of curling.