Ken Stanford

Democrat Barack Obama proposed more immediate steps Monday to heal the nation's ailing economy, including a 90-day moratorium on home foreclosures at some banks and a two-year tax break for businesses that create new jobs.

The head of elections and voter registration in Hall County issued a reminder Monday about the two local questions that are on this year's Nov. 4 General Election ballot.

A Gainesville/Hall 911 dispatcher heard a car accident occur while a victim was calling in the probable cause of the wreck Monday morning.

Despite rains of as much as 5 inches in recent weeks, the water source for four northeast Georgia counties has dropped to 70 percent of full pool, triggering tougher outdoor water use restrictions.

Global stock markets rebounded strongly on Monday after last week's historic sell-off as governments from Europe to Australia and the U.S. intensified efforts to ease a financial crisis that threatened to the throw the world into recession.

Voting rights groups asked a federal judge Friday to stop Georgia's attempts to verify the identities and citizenship of new voter applicants, arguing they amounted to a "systematic purging" of rolls just weeks before the election.

Amtrak is planning a major marketing push for the Crescent, which stops in Gainesville, Toccoa and Atlanta twice a day.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday accused Republican John McCain of trying to divide the country, but he let fellow Democrats handle harsher attacks.

With federal authorities stepping up immigration enforcement raids across the country, Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Menendez of New Jersey are sponsoring a bill to protect the rights of U.S. citizens and legal residents who get caught up in them.

President Bush is arguing that high anxiety among both investors and the general public about the economy is making the credit crisis more severe.