Ken Stanford

Britain is greeting the world with an extravagant celebration that includes Bond, the Bard and a Beatle - and a formal welcome from no less a figure than its jubilee queen.

Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, announced Friday they are donating $2.5 million to the campaign to defend Washington's same-sex marriage law.

President Barack Obama's campaign team hoped that by now, the lethargic U.S. economy would be perking up as it had for President Ronald Reagan in the summer of 1984, setting the stage for Reagan's re-election rout.

But it is not to be.

The long, hazy days of summer signal the start of preparation for Uncle Shuck

Internet marketing and website design firm, Full Media, recently announced the hiring of Juliette Embry as the newest member to its project management department.

The Georgia Associatioin of Latino Elected Officials has come out in support of the transportation sales tax (T-SPLOST) which will be voted on statewide Tuesday.

Christy Moore, Manager of Community Health Improvement for the Medical Center Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Northeast Georgia Health System, Inc., has been appointed to the Jackson EMC Foundation Board of Directors, succeeding Anna Gines, who retired from the board in July.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of just 1.5 percent from April through June, as Americans cut back sharply on spending. The slowdown in growth adds to worries that the economy could be stalling three years after the recession ended.

A former teacher and coach at North Hall High School, who later co-founded with is wife the Mexico Lindo newspaper, has died.

President Barack Obama is reaffirming U.S. ties with Israel, upstaging Mitt Romney one day before the Republican challenger visits Jerusalem.