Ken Stanford

The head of the Gainesville-based Northeast Georgia Chapter of the American Red Cross is retiring.

Corey Hart hit a three-run, inside-the-park homer and Russell Branyan followed with a conventional shot to lift the surging Milwaukee Brewers to a 10-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday for their sixth straight win. Arizona starter Micah Owings of Gainesville was the losing pitcher.

A Hall County Grand Jury indictment accuses a woman of stealing $548,000 from two Gainesville doctors groups.

Parliament's lower house passed a nonbinding motion Tuesday allowing U.S. military deserters to stay in Canada, but the Conservative government was expected to ignore the vote.

Habersham County commissioners think they can get by with less money in the coming year.

Orders for manufactured goods posted a surprisingly strong increase in April as demand rose across a number of industries.

Georgia's plan to push the Tennessee border northward would have a significant economic impact of two neighboring towns on the state line.

World food production must rise by 50 percent by 2030 to meet increasing demand, U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon told world leaders Tuesday at a summit grappling with hunger and civil unrest caused by food price hikes.

As Barack Obama turns to concentrate on his general election challenge, his rival Hillary Rodham Clinton is mounting a last ditch campaign to stay relevant in what is left of the Democratic presidential contest.

Beginning Sunday in DeKalb County, any house built before 1993 and sold will have to have low-flow toilets that consume 1.6 gallons of water or less per flush.