Ken Stanford

White House-backed immigration legislation is gaining momentum in the Senate, where key lawmakers say they are closing in on a bipartisan compromise to spend tens of billions of dollars stiffening the bill's border security requirements without delaying legalization for millions living in the country unlawfully.

The Afghan Taliban are ready to free a U.S. soldier held captive since 2009 in exchange for five of their senior operatives imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as a conciliatory gesture, a senior spokesman for the group said Thursday.

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), operators of the North Georgia Detention Center in Gainesville, announces the appointment of Dr. John Baxter to Vice President, Health Services.

Downtown Gainesville will welcome summer with Karaoke on the Gainesville Square Friday at 7:00.

Financial markets shuddered Wednesday after the Federal Reserve said it could start scaling back its huge economic stimulus program later this year and end it by the middle of 2014.

Men's Wearhouse doesn't like the way its founder looks anymore.

Party City announces the relocation of its Gainesville store to 863 Dawsonville Highway, Suite 710, in the Village Shoppes of Gainesville.

As Congress takes steps to address the country's broken immigration system, analysis by the Center for American Progress shows that the Senate's bipartisan solution would yield high returns for local and state economies.

Forecasters say a tropical depression crossing Mexico's Bay of Campeche is getting better organized and is expected to become a tropical storm before making landfall along Mexico's Gulf Coast.

A heat wave hitting Alaska may not rival the blazing heat of Phoenix or Las Vegas, but to residents of the 49th state, the days of hot weather feel like a stifling oven - or a tropical paradise.