Ken Stanford

Worries that a planned Greek referendum could scuttle a plan to resolve Europe's debt crisis rattled markets Tuesday morning. The Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 200 points, and European stock indexes fell broadly. The dollar and U.S. government bond prices rose as traders moved into assets considered safe.

Suwanee police crime data is now available online, free of charge.

The federal government is suing South Carolina to put a stop to the state's tough new immigration law.

Paving is complete on the Georgia 365 resurfacing project in Hall and Habersham Counties.

Hall County is making it easier for residents to recycle by offering more options and less sorting at the county's 12 trash compactor sites sstarting Saturday.

Hall County is making it easier for residents to recycle by offering more options and less sorting at the county's 12 compactor sites starting Nov. 5 as part of a pilot program.

It's one of the starkest tests of viability for any presidential candidate: crisis management, the ability to step past an explosive charge and re-direct the news. Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain, a relative newcomer to national politics, had trouble passing Monday during a whirlwind of speeches and interviews in the shadow of sexual harassment allegations.

Palestine won its greatest international endorsement yet on Monday, full membership in UNESCO, but the move will cost the agency one-fifth of its funding and some fear will send Mideast peace efforts off a cliff.

Gainesville native Katie Strayhorn has been chosen by Governor Nathan Deal to serve on the Sexual Offender Registration Review Board.

FBI surveillance tapes, photos and documents released Monday show members of a ring of Russian sleeper spies secretly exchanging information and money during a counterintelligence probe that lasted about a decade and ended in the biggest spy swap since the Cold War.