Ken Stanford

Authorities are releasing new details surrounding a deadly shooting April 25 outside an Athens theater that left three people dead and prompted an international manhunt for a Georgia professor.

The state Board of Regents is expected to vote on whether to allow college presidents to furlough employees.

The arrival of the Gwinnett Braves in our area takes me back to another time and another part of Georgia when every town with more than one traffic light, it seems, had a minor league team.

Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue said he would veto a sweeping new tax break that would slash the state's capital gains tax in half over two years but will sign a vast transportation overhaul that would give state politicians vast new powers over infrastructure dollars.

Superior Court Judge Kathlene Gosselin, Northeastern Judicial Circuit, Gainesville, has been named President-Elect of the Council of Superior Court Judges.

Wal-Mart Monday began taking applications for nearly 300 jobs for the store it plans to open in Cleveland this summer.

With the economy performing worse than hoped, revised White House figures point to deepening budget deficits, with the government borrowing 50 cents for every dollar it spends this year.

The Clarks Bridge Park public boat ramp will be closed on Saturday for the annual Rubber Duck Derby.

An American journalist jailed in Iran will be freed Monday and can leave the country immediately, her lawyer said Monday after an appeals court suspended her eight-year prison sentence.

The post office wants two more pennies for your thoughts. The price of a first-class stamp for mailing a letter - or paying a bill - climbed to 44 cents Monday, though folks who planned ahead and stocked up on Forever stamps will still be paying the lower rate.