Ken Stanford

At least two of the candidates running for the 9th District Congressional seat have made public appeals for last-minute, end-of-the-year campaign contributions this week.

Few weather-related problems were reported in northeast Georgia overnight as a result of last night's surprise snowfall.

A Winter Weather Advisory has been posted for parts of northeast Georgia.

Smokers in Georgia and 11 other states will be lighting - and relighting - fire-safe cigarettes designed to go out when they're not puffed as the result of new laws that go into effect Friday.

A survey of 20,000 North Georgia homes and businesses finds 55 percent of respondents did not change their normal activities this year because of the recession.

A man tried to board a commercial airliner in Mogadishu last month carrying powdered chemicals, liquid and a syringe that could have caused an explosion in a case bearing chilling similarities to the terrorist plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner.

Americans are ending 2009 feeling better about the economy than when the year began, buoyed by optimism that job prospects will improve in the first half of 2010.

Cornelia's 6th Annual Apple Drop, scheduled New Year's Eve, has been canceled.

The longtime director for a Gainesville-based non-profit group that helps rape victims says she's retiring.

AirTran Airways says it will establish a secondary hub in Milwaukee, in addition to its main hub in Atlanta.