Ken Stanford

Five years after the U.S. housing bust sent sales and prices plunging, the spring home-buying season is pointing to a long-awaited recovery.

Radio stations WDUN and WSB and TV stations WRDW and WSB received top honors in the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association (GAPBA) awards.

Tornadoes raking communities across the Midwest and Plains left five people dead and at least 29 injured in Oklahoma, damaging a hospital, homes and other buildings as a vast severe weather front plunged eastward Sunday across the nation's midsection.

Starting next year, the check will no longer be in the mail for millions of people who receive Social Security and other government benefits.

In his most specific pledge yet to U.S. Hispanics, President Barack Obama said Saturday he would tackle immigration policy in the first year of a second term.

Baseball-sized hail was breaking windows and tearing siding off homes in northeast Nebraska, while tornadoes were spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma on Saturday as forecasters warned residents across the nation's midsection to brace for "life threatening" weather.

An embarrassing scandal involving prostitutes and Secret Service agents deepened Saturday as 11 agents were placed on leave, and the agency designed to protect President Barack Obama had to offer regret for the mess overshadowing his diplomatic mission to Latin America.

A top National Rifle Association official levied sharp criticism against the national media on Saturday, accusing it of sensationalizing the Trayvon Martin case and ignoring other crimes that happen across the country every day.

Bill Loyd of Cornelia has been named Associate Vice President for Institutional Advancement at Piedmont College.