Ken Stanford

A conservative challenge to the president's health care law has the federal government teetering on the brink of a partial shutdown. The Senate has the next move on must-do legislation required to keep the government open past midnight on Monday.

The Agriculture Department says 524 schools - out of about 100,000 - have dropped out of the federally subsidized national school lunch program since the government introduced new standards for healthier foods last year.

Airlines are introducing a new bevy of fees, but this time passengers might actually like them.

Cobb County lawmakers say it may be time to revise Georgia's zero-tolerance stance toward weapons at public schools after two students were arrested for storing knives in their cars.

Real estate experts say investment companies are taking advantage of low home prices in the metro Atlanta region and have purchased nearly 40,000 of them in the past 18 months.