Ken Stanford

It was a squeaker, but the Standard & Poor's 500 index closed at its first all-time high of 2014.

State Sen. Jason Carter says Gov. Nathan Deal is forgetting about the middle class in favor of big businesses and arguing state education cuts have forced an increase in local property taxes.

Community Bank & Trust (CB&T) announced Wednesday that Martha L. Reabold has been named area executive for its Cornelia/Baldwin, Toccoa, Clayton and Cleveland markets and was also named CBT retail banking executive.

Last year was a wet, warm one for much of the United States.

The Marine Corps says it is attempting to determine the authenticity of photos published by TMZ.com that the entertainment website says show Marines appearing to burn bodies of dead Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah in 2004.

The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report on the deadly assault on the diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, Wednesday, laying blame on the State Department, the intelligence community - even the late Ambassador Chris Stevens - for failing to communicate and heed warnings of terrorist activity in the area.