Ken Stanford

U.S. consumers increased their spending slightly last month as their income grew at the fastest pace in six months.

Moving closer to the brink of a government shutdown, House Republicans vowed Thursday they won't simply accept the stopgap legislation that is likely to remain after Senate Democrats strip away a plan to dismantle President Barack Obama's health care law.

A Syrian lawmaker says the draft U.N. resolution on Syria represents a failure for U.S. diplomacy since the text doesn't spell out possible military action over Syria's chemical weapons.

With the harvest in full swing on the West Coast, farmers in California and other states say they can't find enough people to pick high value crops such as grapes, peppers, apples and pears.

Former President George W. Bush says President Barack Obama should not be criticized for the amount of golf he plays.

The state Department of Education has released the latest SAT scores for the districts and schools. The average score for Gainesville City Schools is 1,364.

Kenya's foreign minister says "two or three Americans" and "one Brit" were among those who attacked a Nairobi shopping mall. More than 60 people have been killed in the assault on the upscale mall, which has lasted for three days.

House Republicans are far less ambitious this week in their demands for spending cuts to erase new debt issued to pay the government's bills than they were during a budget battle two years ago.

For the second time in four days, the Georgia Association of Latino Elected Officials (GALEO) is coming to Hall County to talk about and encourage voter registration.