Ken Stanford

The funeral will be held Tuesday for a woman who was a fixture at East Hall basketball games for nearly 30 years.

A Marine in Iraq sent home $43,000 in stolen cash by hiding it in a footlocker among American flags. A soldier shipped thousands more concealed in a toy stuffed animal. An embassy employee tricked the State Department into wiring $240,000 into his foreign bank account.

An approximately 2-year-old black bear was struck and killed by a vehicle west of Clarkesville shortly after 8 p.m.

Dozens of anti-Wall Street protesters were arrested Sunday in Texas, where they clashed with police over food tables, and in Oregon, where officers dragged them out of a park in an affluent neighborhood.

A frost advisory is in effect for much of north Georgia for early Monday morning, including the Gainesville area.

A freak October nor'easter knocked out power to more than 3 million homes and businesses across the Northeast on Sunday in large part because leaves still on the trees caught more snow, overloading branches that snapped and wreaked havoc. Close to 2 feet of snow fell in some areas over the weekend, and it was particularly wet and heavy, making the storm even more damaging.

The founder of the Arts Council of Gainesville and a co-founder of Elachee Nature Science Center in Gainesville has died.

A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a van into an armored NATO bus Saturday, killing 13 American troops and four Afghans in the deadliest attack on coalition forces in Kabul since the war began - a major setback for the U.S.-led coalition as it begins to draw down combat troops.

The epicenter of the fight over the nation's patchwork of immigration laws is not Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico and became a common site for boycotts. Nor was it any of the four states that were next to pass their own crackdowns.

A South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper says a deadly three-vehicle crash on Interstate 85 in July - that killed a Forsyth County man - happened because the driver of an SUV hit speeds of more than 110 miles an hour.