Ken Stanford

Pennsylvania and New Jersey are on tracks that could lead to the Northeast being the first full region in the country to legalize gay marriage - but the routes are hardly parallel and the horsepower anything but equal.

The U.S. has quietly decided to release more than $1.6 billion in military and economic aid to Pakistan that was suspended when relations between the two countries disintegrated over the covert raid that killed Osama bin Laden and deadly U.S. airstrikes against Pakistani soldiers.

The Hall County Board of Commissioners Monday will consider an Intergovernmental Agreement with the City of Clermont to provide police services and a precinct.

Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) is adding NGPG Family Health Associates to the group effective January 1, 2014.

The stepmother of a 14-year-old accused of bullying a Florida girl prior to her suicide was arrested and charged with child abuse after a video depicting the woman beating a boy was posted on Facebook, a sheriff said Friday.

The Illinois Supreme Court threw out a state law Friday that taxes certain Internet sales, saying the so-called "Amazon tax" violated federal rules against "discriminatory taxes" on digital transactions.

Authorities say more than a dozen children were injured when a 24-foot inflatable slide collapsed at their west Georgia elementary school.