Ken Stanford

The founder and conductor of Gainesville's Northwinds Symphonic Band, Ron Evans, died Saturday at Northeast Georgia Medical Center following an illness.

Daredevil tightrope walker Nik Wallenda is setting his sights on a new goal: the nearly 1,000-foot deep Tallulah Gorge.

More than half of this year's legislative session was already over when the House leadership filed a bill with little fanfare but big political ramifications.

The federal government shutdown last year delayed more than 37,000 immigration hearings by months or years for immigrants already waiting in lengthy lines to plead for asylum or green cards.

The head of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel who was the world's most powerful drug lord was captured overnight by U.S. and Mexican authorities at a hotel in Mazatlan, Mexico, The Associated Press had learned, ending a bloody decades-long career that terrorized swaths of the country.

The United Auto Workers' membership and dues are down sharply from just six years ago. In another sign of weakness, the union suffered a stunning defeat this month when it tried to organize a Tennessee factory run by labor-friendly Volkswagen.

The widow of a northeast Georgia minister, shot and killed by drug agents during a botched drug investigation, says she is grateful for the verdict in her wrongful death suit.

Jackson County Commissioner Bruce Yates says he plans to run for a third term this year.