Ken Stanford

Weekly applications for U.S. unemployment benefits dropped 9,000 last week to a three-month low of 315,000. Meanwhile, retail sales rebounded in February.

The Georgia Public Health Association honored three northeast Georgia residents the annual GPHA meeting in Atlanta Tuesday.

A Senate panel on Wednesday advanced what could become some of the most significant U.S. sanctions on Russia since the end of the Cold War in a bid to pressure President Vladimir Putin to pull Russian troops out of Crimea.

President Barack Obama expressed a glimmer of hope Wednesday that a referendum on the future of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula can be halted, as he met with the new leader of the former Soviet republic.

The top CIA lawyer accused by the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee of trying to intimidate the panel over its investigation into secret prisons and brutal interrogations of terrorism suspects was himself involved in the controversial programs, cited more than 1,600 times in the Senate's unpublished investigative report, according to the panel's chairwoman, Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

A former Swiss banker pleaded guilty Wednesday to his role in a fraud scheme that prosecutors say helped U.S. taxpayers hide as much as $3 billion in assets from the IRS.

A young Hall County man, who was involved in a standoff with Hall County Sheriff's deputies last fall, has been ordered to prison for two years.

Two of the twelve concrete caissons have been poured for the new State Route 284/Clarks Bridge Road bridge over Lake Lanier near the rowing venue.

The North Georgia Community Foundation Board of Directors announces the addition of five new board members: Tim Darrah, Rob Fowler, Rusty Hopkins, Lona Paulos-Pope and Kevin J. Tallant.