Ken Stanford

Kate Varnum was at her Iowa home watching her newly adopted infant son when news flashed that President Barack Obama had become the first sitting president to endorse equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.

Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings, including a Kansas drugstore that submitted more than 1,000 prescriptions each for two patients in just one year, government investigators have found.

The number of international adoptions has plummeted to its lowest point in 15 years, a steep decline attributed largely to crackdowns against baby-selling, a sputtering world economy and efforts by countries to place more children with domestic families.

Mitt Romney on Wednesday reaffirmed his view that marriage should be restricted to one man and one woman, highlighting a sharp contrast with President Barack Obama.

Wells Fargo bankers taught more than 140 kindergarten students at Martin Technology Academy of Math and Science about saving and money Wednesday, using the Hands on Banking financial education curriculum.

A decade after hijackers mostly from Saudi Arabia attacked the United States with passenger jets, the Saudis have emerged as the principal ally of the U.S. against al-Qaida's spinoff group in Yemen and at least twice have disrupted plots to explode sophisticated bombs aboard airlines.

North Georgia Theatre at Piedmont College returns for a second season filled with summer comedies, beginning with

Northeast Georgia Health System (NGHS) named Sheila Rosencrantz, RN, the 2012 Employee of the Year and recognized other employees for their tenure of service during the organization

President Barack Obama Wednesday declared unequivocal support for gay marriage.

A new report finds that the federal appeals court in Washington has effectively blunted a 2008 Supreme Court decision giving detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval brig the right to contest their ongoing confinement.