Ken Stanford

The Swingin' Medallions' 50th Anniversary Celebration Tour arrives in Gainesville Friday, August 3.

H. Bradford

More than 250,000 Georgia voters cast early ballots ahead of Tuesday's primary elections, more than 6,000 of them in Hall County.

The Jackson County Area Chamber of Commerce Buy Local Expo will be held Thursday, August 30 at the Jefferson Civic Center.

A memorial service is planned at a later date for Jerry Ahern of Jefferson, an award-winning and internationally known writer, who died earlier this week.

A Canadian company that wants to build an oil pipeline from Alberta's tar sands region to Texas refineries has received a final permit for the Gulf Coast portion of the project and announced Friday that construction on the 485-mile section would start in the coming weeks.

The former graduate student accused in the deadly Colorado movie theater shooting was being treated by a psychiatrist at the university where he

On a trip to Israel, Mitt Romney is trying to win over a tiny sliver of a small - but powerful - section of the American electorate. President Barack Obama is doing the same at home.