Ken Stanford

The White House and a breakout group of eight Republican senators have been unable to find agreement in their attempts at reaching a bipartisan budget deal, separated by long-standing differences over whether to only reduce spending on large benefit programs or whether to combine those cuts with increased tax revenue.

United Way of Hall County has declared its annual pre-school Adopt-A-Backpack campaign a success and announced winners of its annual Summer Scholars essay contest.

Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations.

HAMACO Industries Corporation, Idaka America, Inc., and Okaya (USA), Inc., have announced the location of North American operations in the Gwinnett Place area near Duluth.

Many U.S. lawmakers believe there is reasonable certainty the Syrian government was responsible fro the reported use of chemical weapons in the civil war in Syria and are pressing the White House to go ahead with an armed response.

Authorities say a 2-year-old boy nearly drowned after falling into a fountain at an east Georgia shopping mall and was hospitalized in critical condition.

The National Bank of Georgia (NBG) announces that Tammy Eden has joined its Gainesville office.