Ken Stanford

The Gwinnett County Commission is prepared to vote on $225 million in proposed cuts to the county's operating budget through 2014. The plan has run into opposition.

Following a near drowning Saturday at Lower Overlook Park in Buford, a four-year-old girl has died.

More plans to build homes, higher stock prices and fewer people filing first-time claims for jobless aid sent a private-sector forecast of U.S. economic activity higher than expected in June.

Suspended NFL star Michael Vick's federal dogfighting sentence ended Monday, freeing him to lobby for a return to the field.

The first astronauts to walk on the moon want President Barack Obama to aim for a new destination: Mars.

Gwinnett County is set to put limits on a practice often called ``double dipping.'

The measure of what humanity can accomplish is a size 9 1/2 bootprint. It belongs to Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon. It will stay on the moon for millions of years with nothing to wipe it away, serving as an almost eternal testament to a can-do mankind.

How ironic that just two days before the 40th anniversary of the first manned landing on the moon the man many of us associate most with the reporting of the U.S. program died. And, Walter Cronkite's passing followed by just a few months that of another broadcast icon... Paul Harvey.

Record lows were set in several Georgia cities Sunday morning, some in northeast Georgia, as fall-like temperatures descended on the state.

As President Barack Obama's spending proposals make their way through the Congress, a House committee has given his high-speed rail initiative - which includes plans for a corridor through northeast Georgia - a big boost.