Ken Stanford

North Korea welcomed former President Bill Clinton to Pyongyang with flowers and hearty handshakes Tuesday as he arrived in the communist nation on a surprise mission to bring home two jailed American journalists.

The high-profile trial of a second Georgia suspect charged with trying to help overseas terrorists wage ``violent jihad'' on America began Monday with a surprise as the 23-year-old man decided to defend himself.

Construction spending rose for the second time in three months in June as residential building increased, fresh evidence that the housing sector may be recovering.

Three people were taken to the hospital following a wreck north of Gainesville Monday morning on Thompson Bridge Road.

A National Guard soldier from northeast Georgia who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan has drowned in a lake along the Georgia-South Carolina border.

More than two dozen people were hurt when a Continental Airlines jet hit turbulence on a flight from Brazil to Texas, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing in Miami early Monday, officials said.

Gainesville native John Lancaster escaped injury Saturday night when violent weather struck the Canadian venue where he was scheduled to perform over the weekend, killing one person and injuring up to 40 others were injured, some seriously.

Georgia gas prices increased three cents a gallon on average over the past week.

Students and parents are divided over a new policy in the Muscogee County School District that allows school officials to take away cell phones if a student is texting in class.

Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was shot down over the Iraq desert on the first night of the Gulf War in 1991 and it was there he apparently was buried by Bedouins, the sand hiding him from the world's mightiest military all these years.