Ken Stanford

An Oklahoma judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked from taking effect a new law designed to reduce the number of abortions performed in the state by restricting the ways in which doctors can treat women with abortion-inducing drugs.

A study indicates that infrastructure improvements are needed to keep bottlenecks from hampering Georgia freight traffic.

Americans have yet to find a Republican they'd clearly prefer over President Barack Obama, although half say the president does not deserve re-election.

Sheriff's deputies shot nearly 50 wild animals - including 18 rare Bengal tigers and 17 lions - in a big-game hunt across the Ohio countryside Wednesday after the owner of an exotic-animal park threw their cages open and committed suicide in what appeared to be one last act of spite against his neighbors and police.

Featherbone Communiversity in Gainesville handed out its second annual

More details have been released about the deadly crash on Toccoa Highway in Habersham County Tuesday night.

Annual cancer tests are becoming a thing of the past. New guidelines out Wednesday for cervical cancer screening have experts at odds over some things, but they are united in the view that the common practice of getting a Pap test every year is too often and probably doing more harm than good.

Homes were built in September at the fastest pace in 17 months and consumers paid more for food and gas last month, although inflation outside those volatile categories was tame.

The dedication and ribbon-cutting for the new Gainesville State College (GSC) Academic IV Building will be held on Friday, the same day the new University System of Georgia Chancellor makes his first official visit to the school.

A man who retired Friday after nearly 20 years with the Hall County Sheriff's Office has joined the crowded field of candidates for the department's top job.