Ken Stanford

A Gainesville woman, whose lifetime of volunteer work included such diverse groups as the girl scouts, the Hall County Sanitation Committee and the Hall Clean Council and library board, has died.

Toyota Motor Corp. has been hit by over 100 complaints in the U.S. and Japan about brake problems with the popular Prius hybrid, the latest in a spate of quality troubles for the automaker as it grapples with massive global recalls.

The weather warning sirens in Hall County were tested this morning as part of Severe Weather Awareness Week in Georgia.

Three U.S. soldiers traveling with Pakistan security force members were killed Wednesday and one wounded in a roadside bombing in northwest Pakistan, officials said.

State transportation officials have used $13.2 million federal stimulus dollars to pay for 12 projects in January.

The five Democratic candidates for governor threw a few jabs at the state's Republicans but largely avoided taking shots at each other in their first televised debate Tuesday night.

When SFC Gordon Spears does his four-mile morning run in Blairsville’s Meeks Park, he makes it a point to stop near the park’s covered bridge and visit an old friend, SSG Bobby Franklin. Only it’s not Franklin, but a stone Soldier standing next to a small boulder adorned with a plaque dedicating the statue to the late Guardsman’s memory.

State troopers say a Carnesville woman, Joyce Anglin, 71, was the victim of a multi-vehicle accident on Georgia Highway 365 near Lula Tuesday morning.

Twenty armed men blocked a road and tried to hijack a convoy of food for earthquake victims, but were driven off by police gunfire, U.N. officials said Tuesday.

To hopefully improve the flow of traffic through the Forsyth County Courthouse, two information display terminals have been installed in the complex.