Ken Stanford

Mat Mladin and Rockstar/Makita Yoshimura Suzuki capped a dominant weekend at the AMA Pro Suzuki Superbike Showdown with another flag-to-flag AMA Pro National Guard American Superbike presented by Parts Unlimited race win Sunday at Road Atlanta.

Teryan Rucker, an eleven-year member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hall County, was selected recently as first-runner up among 30-plus youngsters from across Georgia competing for Youth of Year honors from the state's Boys & Girls Clubs.

Fiberglass insulation manufacturer CertainTeed Corp. says it will lay off 16 percent of its Athens work force on April 21.

State lawmakers voted Friday to require prospective voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before they cast their ballots, making Georgia the second in the nation with such requirements.

Just a month after a fire closed the Rite Aid at 566 E. Main Street, Dahlonega, the store will reopen Monday after operating from a mobile pharmacy on site.

Bills calling for non-binding referendums on the election of the Gainesville mayor and school board chairman are on their way to the governor.

The Hall County School System has outlined details for a series of parent information meetings to be held later this month on a new a new arts and sciences program to be offered beginning this fall.

The level of Lake Lanier is now within ten feet of "full pool" and still rising having gained more than 10 feet since mid-December.

The massive system that brought intense rainfall across Georgia has moved out of the state and is being replaced by high winds that have knocked down trees onto power lines.

The nation's unemployment rate jumped to 8.5 percent in March, the highest since late 1983, as a wide range of employers eliminated a net total of 663,000 jobs.