Ken Stanford

Paralympic superstar Oscar Pistorius was charged Thursday with the murder of his girlfriend who was shot inside his home in South Africa, a stunning development in the life of a national hero known as the Blade Runner for his high-tech artificial legs.

Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled a dozen more planned voyages aboard the Triumph and acknowledged that the crippled ship had been plagued by other mechanical problems in the weeks before an engine-room fire left it powerless in the Gulf of Mexico.

Jonathan Pope, attorney and partner at Hasty Pope, has been named a 2013

The Dow was held back by a slump in McDonald's stock Wednesday, leaving it short of a record.

Traffic on Aviation Boulevard and Dorsey Street in Gainesville will be affected by work at the railroad crossings on those streets Thursday and Friday.

The Tanger Outlet Center in Commerce raised and is donating $13,622 for the battle against breast cancer.

Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (JEMC) will send four student delegates on an all-expense paid leadership trip to Washington, D.C., June 13-20 for the 2013 Washington Youth Tour (WYT).

The funeral will be held Friday in Gainesville for a Murrayville man with close, longtime ties to the University of North Georgia (UNG), who was also a former member of the Hall County School Board.