Ken Stanford

By the time Monday rolls around, Christmas will be in full swing in our area.

Lake Lanier is beginning the new month about a quarter-of-a-foot from full pool... the level having been steadily dropping for about a week.

The man suspected of gunning down four police officers in a suburban coffee shop was shot and killed by a lone patrolman investigating a stolen car early Tuesday.

The University of Georgia is offering students and their spouses or domestic partners free swine flu vaccinations on campus this week.

New infusions of U.S. Marines will begin moving into Afghanistan almost as soon as President Barack Obama announces a redrawn battle strategy, a plan widely expected to include more than 30,000 additional U.S. forces.

A federal grand jury has indicted a North Carolina poultry processor for discharging wastewater, including blood and body parts, from slaughtered turkeys, directly into the local water system.

The Gainesville City Council is expected to give final approval tonight to a plan to raise water and sewer rates. The new rates will be effective January 1.

The Obama administration said Monday it will crack down on mortgage companies that are failing to do enough to help borrowers at risk of foreclosure, as part of a broad effort to ramp up participation in its mortgage assistance program.

Winder will mark the new year by dropping a clay jug from the hanging tower of the old Barrow County Jail.

The Georgia State Patrol says 13 deaths were reported on state highways during Thanksgiving weekend... including two in northeast Georgia, the latest of those in a wreck in Buford Sunday night.