Ken Stanford

Developmentally disabled adults in North Georgia who receive Medicaid waivers and other state funding for housing, food and daily living expenses are giving back to the community in an unusual way as a Gainesville-based program expands. They are making something for nothing.

Thanksgiving shopping took a noticeable bite out of Black Friday's start to the holiday season, as the latest survey found retail sales in stores fell slightly from last year.

When the next Congress cranks up in January, there will be more women, many new faces and fewer tea party-backed House Republicans from the class of 2010. Overriding those changes, though, is a thinning of centrist veterans in both parties.

Lebanon's Hezbollah group would fire thousands of rockets into Israel in any future war and target cities in the country's heartland, the group's leader said Sunday.

Lottery officials say nobody has won the Powerball jackpot and the top prize will now increase to about $425 million for the next drawing, the largest jackpot ever for the game.

President Barack Obama made a quick trip to a Virginia bookstore for some Christmas shopping.

Superstorm Sandy plunged some immigrants living illegally in the U.S. into darkness and even deeper into the shadows.

Sorry, fellas, but President Barack Obama's re-election makes it official: Women can overrule men at the ballot box.

Pope Benedict XVI responded to criticism that the club of churchmen who will choose his successor is too Eurocentric, elevating six new cardinals from Colombia, India, Lebanon, Nigeria, the Philippines and the U.S. during a formal ceremony Saturday.

Hall County and its municipalities have been unable to resolve their dispute over how to divide certain tax proceeds.