Ken Stanford

A fundraiser is planned in Cumming next week for U.S. Senate candidate Karen Handel.

Andrea Harper plans to seek re-election this year to a second term on the Habersham County Board of Commissioners (BOC).

The scores of losing players in last week's $425 million Powerball jackpot did more than take an extremely long shot at getting rich. Their ticket purchases also helped fund a small but increasingly important part of their states' budgets.

The Georgia House of Representatives has passed House Bill 943, the Cancer Treatment Fairness Act, sponsored by Rep. Lee Hawkins of Gainesville. Meanwhile, the state Senate has OK'd a watershed protection bill authored by Sen. Steve Gooch of Dahlonega.

Paula Deen continued maneuvering for a comeback Sunday, turning a beachside cooking demonstration into a public apology for the racist comments that decimated her career last year.

A Georgia Supreme Court ruling reinforces inmates' rights to access prison libraries and legal assistance.

A federal proposal to clean up the smoke wafting from wood-burning stoves has sparked a backlash from some rural residents, lawmakers and manufacturers who fear it could close the damper on one of the oldest ways of warming homes on cold winter days.

His domestic priorities stalled in a divided Congress, President Barack Obama is looking for allies among America's governors.