Ken Stanford

Three Forsyth County sheriff's deputies were recently recognized by Sheriff Ted Paxton for going beyond the call of duty in performing their jobs as law enforcement officers.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham has arrived in Cairo for her first meeting with Egypt's Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, as the U.S. tries to help resolve a political crisis affecting the once-ironclad American ally.

Forsyth County Commissioner Patrick Bell Friday applauded the passage of the Gainesville/Hall County Opportunity Gateway Urban Redevelopment Plan by the Hall County Commission Thursday night.

The city of Gainesville is embarking on a new program with the Salvation Army called Help 2 Others.

Legal experts say emails and other evidence from the Penn State sex abuse case suggest that Joe Paterno and other university officials put boys in danger with their failure to report sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago.

President Barack Obama is keeping up a drumbeat of skepticism over Mitt Romney's insistence - displayed in a blitz of TV interviews - that he stepped down from his private equity firm years earlier than federal records indicate.

President Barack Obama is prodding Congress to "skip the unnecessary drama" and pass his proposal to extend Bush-era tax cuts to families earning less than $250,000 a year but not for those who earn more.

The city of Gainesville with observe Water Week July 16-20 with a number of workshops and demonstrations on such things as rain barrels and irrigation systems.

Public Service Commissioners Stan Wise and Chuck Eaton are both facing challengers in the coming Republican primary on July 31.

Visa, MasterCard and major banks agreed to pay retailers at least $6 billion to settle a long-running lawsuit that alleged the card issuers conspired to fix the fees that stores pay to accept credit cards. As part of the settlement, announced late Friday, stores from Rite Aid to Kroger will be allowed to charge customers more if they pay using a credit card