Ken Stanford

It was September 1897 when the first students convened in Demorest to mark the beginning of Piedmont College, known then and until 1902 as the J.S. Green Collegiate Institute.

The Longstreet Society

The Fifth Row Center Theater in Flowery Branch will present "The Foreigner" for six performances later this month and early next month.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered state prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-change surgery to a transgender inmate serving life in prison for murder.

A Pentagon official says a former Navy SEAL's insider account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contains classified information.

Paul Ryan says America isn't better off after nearly four years of President Barack Obama's leadership. And for a second straight day, the Republican vice presidential nominee linked the Democrat to former President Jimmy Carter.

Police have surrounded a group of protesters who started an unscheduled march near the Democratic National Convention, placing at least one person in handcuffs.

For the second year in a row, Georgia Power set up an information table at North Georgia Technical College

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Beijing to press Chinese authorities to agree to peacefully resolve disputes with their smaller neighbors over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea. But as she began her meetings here, China questioned the stated neutrality of the United States.

Stocks are falling on Wall Street following reports that construction spending and manufacturing have weakened in the U.S.