Ken Stanford

After a brief break over the weekend and Monday, the year's fourth blast of polar air will move into North Georgia Tuesday.

The U.S. stock market is swooning as investors fear slower global economic growth.

Republican Party activists from Mississippi to Massachusetts defended New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's leadership Friday, insisting this is no time to write his political obituary. But they also said it's far too soon to grant him presidential front-runner status.

Vowing to look hard at signs of trouble inside the Air Force's nuclear missile corps, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday it's clear "something is wrong."

The Tennessee Valley Authority - which provides electrical power to several Georgia counties - is asking customers to reduce their power usage in an effort to deal with subfreezing temperatures that are causing a high demand for electricity across the southeast.

Investigators were trying to pick through the icy rubble of a charred seniors' facility in Quebec Friday to try to identify more victims of a fire that killed at least five and left about 30 missing.

The frigid winter of 2014 is setting the price of natural gas on fire.

The Maryland medical examiner's office says a former aide to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander hanged himself in his parents' home, just weeks after his arrest on child pornography charges.

Mike Huckabee's comments about contraception proved quick fodder for Democrats and a headache for Republicans trying to market themselves as a better choice for female voters who have proved elusive to the GOP.