Ken Stanford

Vidal Sassoon used his hairstyling shears to free women from beehives and hot rollers and give them wash-and-wear cuts that made him an international name in hair care.

At this week's state Board of Regents meeting, Gainesville State College President Martha Nesbitt was recognized for her leadership and accomplishments as her June 30 retirement draws near.

Al-Qaida designed a bomb to slip inside form-fitting, brief-style underwear in hopes it would go undetected even if the bomber received an airport pat-down, officials said Wednesday, describing a plot they said was directly overseen by a high-level al-Qaida leader in Yemen.

The Larry Barker Quartet is the last of five featured performers in the Evenings of Intimate Jazz series at the Arts Council Smithgall Arts Center.

Over the past three years, al-Qaida bomb makers in Yemen have developed three fiendishly clever devices in hopes of attacking airplanes in the skies above the United States.

The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest.

The struggling U.S. Postal Service is trying to tamp down concern over its wide-scale cuts, saying it will seek to keep hundreds of rural post offices open with shorter hours. The Chestnut Mountain Post Office was among those in Georgia on a list slated for possible closing which was released last summer.

The government is taking steps to help ensure that children who need CT scans and other X-ray-based tests don't get an adult-sized dose of radiation.

Jerry Sandusky's lawyer is asking a judge to delay his June 5 trial on 52 counts related to child sex abuse charges against 10 boys, saying that without the delay he may not be able to "effectively and adequately represent" the former Penn State assistant football coach.

For a group of men from Georgia, a recent trip to North Korea was a trip of a lifetime - and a former Gainesvillian who made the trip says he would go back "tomorrow."