Ken Stanford

Organizers of a town hall meeting to discuss controversial new toll lanes in metro Atlanta say they're frustrated that representatives of the State Road and Tollway Authority won't attend.

A professor in the Department of Physics at North Georgia College & State University has received four grants totaling $12,000 from the NASA Georgia Space Grant Consortium (GSGC). The grants will fund student personnel at the university's planetarium and observatory, scholarships and undergraduate research.

A weather-related accident shut down a section of I-985 Wednesday night.

State labor officials say Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 10.2 percent in October, down one-tenth of a percentage point from September.

A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with an investigation into a shooting near the White House, the U.S. Secret Service said.

Authorities are reporting more storm damage in Alabama.

Jackson Electric Membership Cooperation and Georgia Power reported scattered power outages as a result of Wednesday afternoon's stormy weather.

...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR PEA SIZED HAIL AND 40 MPH WINDS
IN HALL COUNTY UNTIL 230 PM EST...

The National Weather Service has issued a tornado warning effective until 2:30 for DeKalb, Fulton and Gwinnett counties.

Flowery Branch will be the first city in Hall County to offer the Sunday retail sale of alcoholic beverages.