Ken Stanford

The level of Lake Lanier this morning is at its highest since late October, as recent rains continue to replenish the drought-impacted reservoir, including more than one inch at the Gainesville airport just since midnight.

Although Georgia experienced an 11% reduction in impaired driving fatalities in 2010, the Governor

Officials at a National Weather Service office outside Atlanta say three tornadoes in north Georgia last week bring their total for this year 29.

Damage is put at a quarter-million dollars following a house fire in South Hall about 11:00 Sunday night.

This year's Christmas Kettle Drive netted the Gainesville Salvation Army a record total in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

More than 40 volunteers from area churches fed more than than 100 of the Gainesville area's needy a hot meal Sunday at the Good News at Noon shelter.

Georgia gasoline prices are down four-cents-a-gallon, on average, from a week ago.

Delfino Aldama was fixing a customer's brakes this month when his smartphone chimed with a text message that tipped him to a police checkpoint more than an hour before officers began stopping motorists. The self-employed auto mechanic frantically called friends with the location and drove an alternate route home.

Federal and state officials say Georgia highway fatalities dropped substantially last year for the fifth year in a row.

Herman Cain's longshot bid for the White House hardly earned any national attention when he announced his candidacy in May. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's campaign almost imploded soon when his top aides walked out on him.