Ken Stanford

If the weather forecast holds, the last holiday weekend of the summer should be a busy one on Lake Lanier and other lakes in Georgia.

A Buford teenager's friends came to her rescue after she texted for help during an attack.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has announced $37 million in grants for two of the state's community development programs... with four of them designated for northeast Georgia.

The unemployment rate jumped to 9.7 percent in August, the highest since June 1983, as employers eliminated a net total of 216,000 jobs.

"Who shot me?" The last words of a dying northeast Georgia minister, according to his brother-in-law.

Schools are on the frontline of the swine flu battle, and state health officials are making plans for the largest mass vaccination program in Georgia history.

Critics of Georgia's public defender system filed a lawsuit in April contending that hundreds of poor defendants in northeast Georgia were languishing in jails without seeing attorneys. They returned to court Thursday to tell a judge that there is still much work to be done.

Shots will be available in northeast Georgia starting Friday for "seasonal" influenza, starting in Dawson and Banks counties.

No one signed up to run for the Post 2 seat on the Gillsville City Council, so Mayor Larry Poole said they turned to the city attorney to figure out what to do next.

A 28-year-old pastor killed by drug task-force agents this week was a father-to-be who settled in a small town where he felt called to the ministry, a relative said Thursday.