Ken Stanford

Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.

The Vatican's penchant for secrecy has won out over American-style transparency.

Relatives of an 87-year-old woman who died after a nurse at her retirement home refused a 911 dispatcher's pleas to perform CPR expressed satisfaction with the care she received, saying her wishes were to die naturally. Meanwhile, the company that owns the facility now says its worker failed to follow proper procedures.

Chestatee, East Hall, Flowery Branch, Lanier Charter Career Academy (LCCA), and North Hall Marketing students and DECA members recently won the right to compete at the international level in the organization

Tommy Bagwell, Jan Cooley and Bob Swoszowski will be inducted into the Northeast Georgia Business Hall of Fame Thursday at a ceremony in Gainesville.

Bradley Weaver has been honored by the Georgia House of Representatives for his receipt of the FFA's 2012 American Star in Agribusiness Award, one of the organization's highest honors.

The Cumming-Forsyth County Chamber of Commerce has announced plans for The Innovation Management workshop on March 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Forsyth Conference Center, located at 3410 Ronald Regan Blvd. in Cumming.

Forecasters are warning of high winds with gusts of up to 40 mph across Georgia, part of a winter storm system that damaged several homes northwest of Atlanta and brought snow and ice to parts of the north Georgia mountains.

Flyers reacted with shrugs but largely agreed with a new policy announced by the Transportation Security Administration that airline passengers will be able to carry small knives and previously forbidden sports equipment on planes.

After pummeling the nation's midsection with heavy snow, a late-winter storm made its way Wednesday to the nation's capital, where residents braced for the possibility of power outages.