Ken Stanford

The stock market opened slightly higher as investors wait for news on the standoff with Syria.

Fewer Americans signed contracts to buy U.S. homes in July, but the level stayed close to a 6 1/2-year high. The modest decline suggests higher mortgage rates have yet to slow sales sharply.

The Obama administration is still defining the central objectives of a potential military strike on Syria and considering possible Syrian government reprisals, even as U.S. intelligence agencies prepare additional evidence to show the Bashar Assad government's responsibility for last week's alleged chemical weapons attack, two senior administration officials said Wednesday.

The Forsyth County Clerk of Courts office has recently added
a new online feature designed to save residents time and enhance efficiency of the office.

As the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington today, a new study finds that race relations in the United States are a work in progress, as always, but most blacks, whites and Hispanics say they get along reasonably well with each other.

Veterans and disabled workers who often struggle to find work could have an easier time landing a job under new federal regulations.

The giant wildfire burning at the edge of Yosemite National Park has not only destroyed buildings and threatened water supplies, electricity and sequoias, it has also unleashed a smoky haze that has worsened air quality more than 100 miles away in Nevada.

The New York Police Department has secretly labeled entire mosques as terrorism organizations, a designation that allows police to use informants to record sermons and spy on imams, often without specific evidence of criminal wrongdoing.

The parking deck at the University of North Georgia Gainesville campus in Oakwood has been closed until further notice.