Ken Stanford

House Speaker David Ralston said Saturday that he will propose banning lobbyists from giving gifts to state lawmakers, a decision that comes after residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of nonbinding referendums to set limits.

Investigators have determined that a late afternoon house fire Friday in Barrow County was caused by a child playing with fire.

One of two men who ran in the July 31 Republican Primary for a newly created state House seat has died.

Democrats pounced on Mitt Romney's selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday, saying the pick showed a commitment to "budget-busting tax cuts" for the wealthy and greater burdens on the middle class and seniors.

The United States is in the midst of the worst drought in decades, and the dry weather and soaring temperatures are taking a toll on people living and working in Ohio west to California and Texas north to the Dakotas.

Hugh Armstrong says he hitchhiked and walked 1,000 miles south from New Hampshire without knowing who he was. Then he heard his granddaughter's name in a McDonald's in Asheville and started to fill in a few blanks.

Republican Mitt Romney's running mate, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, wasted little time tearing into President Barack Obama on Saturday, lambasting the Democrat's "record of failure" just hours after being named to the GOP ticket.

The Georgia Department of Juvenile says a new website has been created to report suspicious activities at the state's youth detention center and court-services offices.

Even before Wisconsin sent Paul Ryan to Congress, he was meticulously carving a path that seemed to point only upward.