Ken Stanford

Stock prices are little changed in early trading after yesterday's big declines.

While President-elect Barack Obama enjoys a few days with his family after a hard-fought election, speculation swirls in the nation's capital around potential administration appointees.

The chairman of the Hall County Democratic Party - referring to the election of Barack Obama as the country's 44th president - says it was an "exciting time" Tuesday night "as the election returns rolled in."

Republicans seem to have withstood attempts by Georgia Democrats to put a major dent in their majority in the state Legislature.

With Northeast Georgia Medical Center building a new hospital in South Hall, expansion in the North Gwinnett area is the center of a fall advertising campaign by Gwinnett Medical Center.

President Bush is promising to cooperate with Barack Obama in the transition work that will precede the transfer of power to the newly elected Democrat.

Lake Lanier could soon set a new record low, just one year after the current one was established.

By early afternoon, only a few minor problems had been reported to elections officials in Hall County - and most of them had been quickly resolved.

The Gainesville Board of Education has chosen a successor to Michael Kemp, who resigned this summer as principal at Gainesville High School.

Thousands of Georgia voters lined up early Tuesday at polling sites across the state amid warnings that some residents may wait in lines that could stretch hours long.