Ken Stanford

With a solemnity reserved for momentous occasions, the Senate passed historic legislation Thursday offering the priceless hope of citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in America's shadows. The bill also promises a military-style effort to secure the long-porous border with Mexico.

Student loan rates will double Monday - at least for a while - after a compromise to keep student loan interest rates low proved unwinnable before the July 1 deadline, senators said Thursday.

A fight over sweeping attempts to limit abortion in Texas became a personal grudge match Thursday between conservative Republican Gov. Rick Perry and a state senator whose lengthy, one-woman filibuster has catapulted her to sudden, national political stardom.

The Senate advanced historic immigration legislation across the last procedural test Thursday and prepared to vote later in the day to pass the measure offering the prize of U.S. citizenship to millions.

The inside of the old Georgia Mountains Center in downtown Gainesville, which Brenau University is renovating into classrooms, has been undergoing a transformation for several months. And, now there are signs of change, literally, outside as well.

A Buford man's run on Jeopardy! ended Tuesday night but not before he had won $137,803.

U.S. consumers spent more in May as their income rose, encouraging signs after a slow start to the year. But spending was weaker in April, February and January than previously estimated.

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. is supporting healthy eating habits among low-income youth and their families through its sponsorship of 22 community gardens across Georgia, including two in northeast Georgia.

President Barack Obama on Thursday praised the Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage as a "victory for American democracy" but clashed with his African host over gay rights in a sign of how far the movement has to go internationally.

The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 9,000 to a seasonally adjusted 346,000 last week.