Ken Stanford

Corporal punishment is still going strong in some rural Georgia schools, where educators paddled students more than 16,000 times last year.

About 200 people joined at the Gainesville Civic Center Sunday afternoon to celebrate patients who are more than a year removed from weight loss surgery at Northeast Georgia Medical Center

The United States and Egypt tried Sunday to put a brave face on their badly frayed ties and committed to restoring a partnership undermined by the military ouster of Egypt's first democratically elected president.

President Barack Obama cast Republican Ken Cuccinelli on Sunday as part of an extreme tea party Republican faction that shut down the government, throwing the political weight of the White House behind Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the final days of a bitter race for governor.

A Wichita pastor accused of harassing the woman who opened Wichita's first abortion clinic since Dr. George Tiller's 2009 murder must face trial to determine whether his statements and actions are constitutionally protected, a Kansas judge ruled Saturday.

Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Surgical Associates Vascular Center announces that James G. Reeves, MD, has joined the practice.

The founder of the Speech Pathology Program in the Hall County School System has died.

Many of the ills of the modern world - starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease - are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change, a leaked draft of an international scientific report forecasts.

A mixed-use development, consisting of multi-family, single-family, commercial and office components, is planned on a 476-acre tract on Georgia 365 just north of White Sulphur Road.