Ken Stanford

The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the first three months of this year. Governments spent less, and businesses cut back on investment. But consumers spent at the fastest pace in more than a year.

An Afghan soldier fatally shot an American service member and a local interpreter in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks against U.S. and other foreign forces by their Afghan partners.

Most of the victims of last year's epic tornado outbreak in Alabama had at least one thing in common: They knew the storm was coming.

Dr. Elisabeth Teal, associate professor of business administration in the Mike Cottrell School of Business at North Georgia College & State University, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi, Romania this summer.

Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration said Thursday it would drop an unpopular plan to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents.

More than 3 million health insurance policyholders and thousands of employers will share $1.3 billion in rebates this year, thanks to President Barack Obama's health care law, a nonpartisan research group said Thursday.

The first-graders in Ohio Pack 109's Tiger Scouts didn't know or care their den mother was a lesbian - at least not until the Boy Scouts of America threw her out over the organization's ban on gays.

Sarah Bell was recognized at the 32nd Annual Convention of the Georgia Association for Gifted Children where she served on the Charter Systems Panel.

Gainesville U.S. Forest Service employees James Wettstaed and Mitch Cohen of the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests were recently recognized with the Forest Service

House Speaker John Boehner said Thursday that President Barack Obama was acting "beneath the dignity of the White House" when he traveled around the country this week to pressure Republicans to help keep federal student loan costs from ballooning.