Ken Stanford

The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion for the first time ever and could grow to nearly $2 trillion by this fall, intensifying fears about higher interest rates, inflation and the strength of the dollar.

Her confirmation all but assured, Sonia Sotomayor pledged Monday to serve the "larger interest of impartial justice" rather than any narrow cause if she becomes the first Hispanic on the Supreme Court.

Upset residents are launching the stiffest challenge yet to Georgia's touch-screen electronic voting system, arguing that there's no way to ensure ballots cast are recorded and tabulated correctly.

Sen. John McCain wants to remove the $1.75 billion recently inserted into the proposed 2010 defense budget for more fighter jets from Lockheed Martin.

They'll try again this weekend to run the 6th Annual Downtown Gainesville Gran Prix Criterium Bike Race which fell victim to rainy weather earlier in the year.

Chicken farmers and the poultry industry as a whole are worried about the outcome of a federal lawsuit that goes to trial in Okalhoma in September.

Mother Nature's "light and sound" show Sunday night was just that, for the most part - a lot of lightning and thunder but little else, though there were some homes damaged by falling trees across north Georgia.

There were no injuries early Monday but southbound lanes of Georgia 365 near Lula were shut down from a couple of hours because of a two-vehicle crash.

The University of Georgia will split a $1.7 million federal stimulus grant with two local governments in a project to retrofit diesel engines to burn cleaner.

An overhauled federal program allowing local and state law enforcement officials to arrest and deport immigrants will focus on the most serious criminals and limit officers' police powers, according to the Homeland Security Department.