Ken Stanford

If President Barack Obama wins this swing-voting state, and a second term as president, voters like Paula Burky will probably be the reason.

Negotiators at the United Nations are working to put final touches on a treaty cracking down on the global, $60 billion business of illicit trading in small arms, a move aimed at curbing violence in some of the most troubled corners of the world. In the United States, gun activists denounce it as an end run around their constitutional right to bear arms.

A U.S. economy that plodded along in the first three months of the year likely grew even less in the April-June quarter. And most economists no longer think growth will strengthen much in the second half of 2012.

When this summer's drought turned her prized lawn brown, Terri LoPrimo fought back, but not with sprinklers: She had it painted green, making her suddenly lush-appearing yard the envy of her neighborhood.

Georgia voters only have a few more hours to cast an early ballot ahead of Tuesday's primary election.

For months, the identity of the boy who was sexually assaulted in the locker room showers by Jerry Sandusky was one of the biggest mysteries of the Penn State scandal. Now, for the first time, a man has come forward to claim he was that boy, and is threatening to sue the university.

All of a sudden, biting into a fried chicken sandwich has become a political statement.

The widest drought to grip the United States in decades is getting worse with no signs of abating, a new report warned Thursday, as state officials urged conservation and more ranchers considered selling cattle.

A dozen hospitals in seven states - including Georgia - are scrambling to identify people who might have been infected with hepatitis C by a traveling medical technician who was charged a week ago with causing an outbreak in New Hampshire.

Dr. Richard D. Hooker Jr., dean of the NATO Defense College, will be the keynote speaker at the Aug. 3 commencement exercises at North Georgia College & State University (NGCSU).