Ken Stanford

One of America's most controversial figures during the Vietnam War has died.

Contrary to popular belief, gasoline prices don’t always increase going into major travel holidays, according to AAA Auto Club South, and that was true this past weekend.

A Gainesville American Legion Post has won one of four national awards handed out in Georgia.

California, Michigan and South Carolina suffered the most financial pain in May as unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies rose, according an Associated Press analysis of economic stress in more than 3,100 U.S. counties.

The Georgia Department of Revenue (DOR) - hampered by mandated layoffs in the wake of the state's money crunch - is still sifting through all the paper income tax returns filed this year but officials say there is good news for those who filed paper returns before April 3.

Georgia appears to be unprepared on several fronts to prevent and contain public health threats, according to an examination by the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.

A near-drowning was reported in South Hall Saturday.

The uncle of a Marine from northwest Georgia who was killed in Afghanistan joined the military when he was 17 and previously had been in Iraq.

Rescue teams from three counties sped to Lake Lanier Saturday morning to a report of a diver in distress but the diver soon surfaced, unharmed.

Serena Williams kept telling herself she was facing just another foe in the Wimbledon final Saturday, just another woman who hits the ball quite hard, just another player trying to deny her a Grand Slam title. But in the end, Serena bested not just another woman but her sister, Venus, for the championship.