Ken Stanford

A trip to France by some of Georgia's top education officials has led to questions and confusion about who paid the tab.

Cedar Shoals High School is one of about 33 high schools nationwide, and the only one in Georgia, in an NFL-backed pilot program called Heads Up Football, which they hope will reduce concussion-related trauma.

Retail sales and wholesale prices were up slightly in August, according to two federal reports issued in Washington Friday.

With rain still falling and the flood threat still real, authorities called on thousands more people in the inundated city of Boulder and a mountain hamlet to evacuate as nearby creeks rose to dangerous levels.

Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, triggering a firefight with security forces in an attack that killed at least two Afghans. The U.S. said all its personnel from the mission were safe and that American forces later secured the site.

A Pennsylvania judge's order stopping a suburban Philadelphia court clerk from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples leaves their legal status unclear, with an appeal possible and other legal actions pending or in the works.

Striking a tough tone, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opened swiftly convened talks with Russia on Syria's chemical weapons Thursday by bluntly rejecting a Syrian pledge to begin a "standard process" by turning over information rather than weapons - and nothing immediately.

GOP leaders eager to avoid blame for a possible government shutdown next month appear confounded by conservatives' passion for using fast-approaching deadlines to derail the implementation of President Barack Obama's health care law.

United Way of Hall County kicked off this year's fundraising campaign Thursday morning with the theme