Ken Stanford

For their academic performance during summer semester 2011, the following students were named to the North Georgia College & State University President's List.

The state Board of Regents has approved a $1.85 billion budget proposal after about 20 students were ejected from the meeting for protesting additional planned cuts to the university system.

It sounded improbable on the surface that a New York City congressional district where Democrats have a 3-1 registration edge and have held office for nearly a century could even come close to electing a Republican to the U.S. House.

New Census data shows that Georgia's poverty rate was the third highest in the country in 2010, up two spots from last year, with more than 1.8 million residents counted among the poor.

Digging in for a bruising struggle, Republicans on Congress' powerful deficit-fighting "supercommittee" targeted Social Security and government health care spending Tuesday while Democrats pressed for higher tax revenue as part of any deal to reduce red ink by at least $1.2 trillion over the next decade.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says a supervisor in the Hall County Tax Assessor's Office sexually harassed a female employee.

Brenau University continued to score high in the annual U.S. News & World Report rankings of best colleges and universities in the nation and moved into 11th place in the Southeast in the magazine

A ruling by a federal judge in Pennsylvania says the requirement in President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that individuals buy health insurance was unconstitutional.

The Census Bureau reports the number of Americans in poverty jumped to 15.1 percent in 2010, a 27-year high.

The Pentagon has confirmed the death of a Barrow County soldier, Staff Sgt. Keith Rudd, in Parvan, Afghanistan.