Ken Stanford

Attorneys for the suspect in the Colorado movie theater shootings said Thursday their client is mentally ill and that they need more time to assess the nature of his illness.

George Zimmerman will seek to have second-degree murder charges dismissed under Florida's "stand your ground" law in the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, his attorney said Thursday.

Piedmont College President James Mellichamp has appointed Jane Kidd as Special Assistant to the President, effective Aug. 1.

Mitt Romney on Thursday accused President Barack Obama and his allies of launching personal attacks and perpetuating lies about him in TV ads. The Republican also rolled out a new commercial of his own that questioned Obama's values and accused the president of waging war on religious freedom.

The U.S. Postal Service is moving forward with a plan to keep 13,000 low-revenue post offices in rural areas open but with shorter operating hours. Fourteen of them are in northeast Georgia.

U.S. airlines are more punctual and less likely to lose your bag than at any time in more than two decades.

Officials say there's been a five-fold increase of cases of a new strain of swine flu that spreads from pigs to people.

The nearly bankrupt U.S. Postal Service on Thursday reported a quarterly loss of $5.2 billion and warned it will miss another payment due to the Treasury, just one week after its first-ever default on a payment for future retiree health benefits.

The Gainesville Police Department has issued a reminder about school-related traffic as city schools get set to begin a new year Friday.

The Dahlonega-Lumpkin County Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Center, along with Dahlonega