Ken Stanford

Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.

Clarkesville officials said as many as 8,000 people attended the 50th-annual Mountain Laurel Festival Parade Saturday morning.

The metaphor is an easy one, overused and perhaps even a bit overwrought. We are forging forward into a digital frontier, leaving convention behind, traveling without guides into an uncharted virtual land where progress and profits are forever around the next bend.

Sound familiar?

The NAACP passed a resolution Saturday endorsing same-sex marriage as a civil right and opposing any efforts "to codify discrimination or hatred into the law."

Three men accused of making Molotov cocktails had been planning to attack President Barack Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home and other targets during this weekend's NATO summit, prosecutors said Saturday.

She was tiny and trembling and looked so very vulnerable. Barely 15, having already experienced a lifetime of hardships since losing her mother at 5 and crossing the desert with her father, she clutched a microphone before a crowd in New York's Union Square.

Drawn together in this serene mountain outpost, leaders of the major industrialized nations are prodding Germany to balance its push for European fiscal austerity with doses of stimulus spending to avoid an economic calamity that could reverberate worldwide.

Camping World RV Sales, the nation's largest recreational vehicle retailer, says 22 of its RV Dealerships across the country, including the one in Oakwood, have been recognized as Winnebago Circle of Excellence dealers.

Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation (Sawnee EMC) is implementing a rate decrease, averaging six dollars a month, effective June 1.

New figures from the state Labor Department show Gainesville again leading the state in job gains and with one of the lowest numbers of new claims for unemployment insurance.