Ken Stanford

Global markets are mixed after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed its key interest rate to historic lows, oil prices are rising again, and President Bush considering "all options" to help U.S. auto makers.

Public colleges created during segregation to provide blacks an education denied to them by white institutions are at the center of a budget battle brewing in Georgia.

A juror in the trial against courthouse gunman Brian Nichols says the three holdouts who voted against the death penalty for the gunman may have already made their minds up before the trial began.

The state is fining the City of Gainesville for a sewage spill.

Consumer prices in November plunged by the largest amount on records going back 61 years as energy costs posted nearly double the decline of the previous month.

As unemployment rises painfully higher and nest eggs are shattered, the Federal Reserve is prepared to slash a key interest rate perhaps to an all-time low in a desperate bid to stem the country's economic slide.

The Arena Football League has canceled its 2009 season subject to agreement of the players union.

Gainesville State College is among the nation's fastest-growing two-year colleges.

Gas prices in Georgia are down another ten cents a gallon from a week ago.

The racial gap in colon cancer death rates is widening, a new report says, and experts partly blame blacks' lower screening rates and poor access to quality care.