Ken Stanford

Stocks opened sharply higher on Wall Street after China cut its benchmark lending rate in another bid to boost its slowing economy.

A concussion-related lawsuit bringing together scores of cases has been filed in federal court, accusing the NFL of hiding information that linked football-related head trauma to permanent brain injuries.

A group of four students and one professor from North Georgia College & State University

The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week, suggesting modest job growth after three months of weak hiring.

The gap between federal support for agricultural research at large public universities and private investment continues to grow - and the divide comes with increased threats to academic freedom and more instances of meddling in the lab, a new research report suggests.

Afghanistan's president said Thursday that 18 people killed in a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday were all civilians.

With the opening of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London just weeks away, the Northeast Georgia History Center is going back in time - to 1996 when Atlanta hosted the summer games.

The Gainesville State College Alumni Association will host the annual Starlight Concert and Fireworks Friday night at the G.W. Bailey Amphetheatre on the Gainesville campus.

As summer beckons, it seems Americans are thinking more about the stifling cost of energy than about making tracks to the beach.

Conservatives at the core of the Republican Party are coalescing behind likely GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney faster than expected after a punishing primary season in which they loudly sought someone else - almost anybody else - to carry the fight to President Barack Obama.