Ken Stanford

A Florida A&M drum major who died after being hazed on a bus was reportedly known for his opposition to hazing but agreed to go through a brutal initiation.

The number of people seeking unemployment benefits nationwide changed little last week and other economic data released this week has been mixed.

A fire on a nuclear-powered submarine at a Maine shipyard has injured seven people, including five firefighters, but did not affect the reactor, which was not active.

Gloom infects the hard-working shrimp and crab docks of this gritty fishing town as the second full year of fishing since BP's catastrophic oil spill kicks into high gear.

Mitt Romney's vice presidential search has entered a new phase: auditions.

The government is trying to crack down on food stamp recipients who are ripping off taxpayers by illegally selling their benefit cards for cash.

State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says the unemployment rate in metro Gainesville declined to 6.9 percent in April to its lowest level since November 2008 when it was 6.6 percent. The rate was 7.2 percent in March and 7.8 percent in April 2011.

A Hall County native whose career in education stretched from Maysville to Brenau University to Russia and the state Capitol has died.

President Barack Obama's re-election campaign is beginning to express some confidence that the president's historic, yet politically risky, embrace of gay marriage may not hurt him in the November election.

Senators investigating the Secret Service prostitution scandal said Wednesday that dozens of reported episodes of misconduct by agents point to a culture of carousing in the agency and urged Director Mark Sullivan to get past his insistence that the romp in Cartagena was a one-time mistake.