Ken Stanford

The U.S. economy grew at a 3.2 percent annual rate in the October-December quarter on the strength of the strongest consumer spending in three years, an encouraging sign for 2014.

Rotating Engineered Products, Inc. (REP) president and founder Jim Hene announced Thursdsay the firm has outgrown its existing facility on Murphy Boulevard in Gainesville and will develop a new headquarters, engineering, sales and production center on a new site in Hall County.

House Republican leaders plan to outline broad immigration principles, including legalization for the 11 million immigrants living here illegally, to the GOP rank and0

If you left a car or truck abandoned on the highways around Atlanta Tuesday night, several state agencies are offering assistance in retrieving your vehicle.

The Syrian government used controlled explosives and bulldozers to raze thousands of residential buildings, in some cases entire neighborhoods, in a campaign that appeared designed to punish civilians sympathetic to the opposition or to cause disproportionate harm to them, an international human rights group said Thursday.

Toyota Motor Corp. is in discussions with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about a possible recall in the U.S. and Canada covering several car models, including the popular Camry, for a problem with seat fabric.

Campaigns for secretary of state, often relegated to the back burner of American politics, are drawing increasing attention from Democratic and Republican groups that hope to influence how elections are overseen in a number of presidential battleground states.

Among the many oddities that have arisen from marijuana legalization in Washington and Colorado is this: It can be easier to get through airport security with a bag of weed than a bottle of water.

A Gainesville man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly stealing more than $500 worth of chicken from a Pendergrass poultry plant.