Ken Stanford

State Superintendent of Schools Kathy Cox named the 2009 Georgia Schools of Excellence in Student Achievement Friday, honoring 27 schools - including West Hall High - that have shown the greatest improvement or highest achievement across the state.

It's a sure sign that the holidays are just around the corner: Northeast Georgia Medical Center's 18th annual Marketplace.

Georgia is kicking off its ``Apply to College Week'' where high school students statewide will get help with applications and finding financial aid. Five northeast Georgia schools - including three in Hall County - are participating.

No one was seriously injured in a wreck on Browns Bridge Road near the bridge during morning rush hour Friday.

A recount has given a former city council member a one-vote victory in the race for mayor of Royston, one of two such contests resolved that way in Franklin County.

The unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent for the first time since 1983 and is likely to go higher.

If you have some old stuff sitting around the house you've been intending to get rid of, Saturday is your chance.

There are over 300 banks in georgia, and almost one in five of them has made it on a list of troubled institutions... including twelve in northeast Georgia.

A fugitive who has 24 "active felony warrants" hanging over him is now in custody.

The rains that kept Lake Lanier almost a foot above full pool since it reached that point Oct. 14 for the first time in four years have abated and the level of Lanier has started dropping.