Ken Stanford

A new government report released Tuesday shows that more than half of all people sentenced to serve time in federal prison for committing felonies are Hispanic, a seismic demographic shift swollen by immigration offenses.

The Gainesville Board of Education agreed to a program Monday night that will offer breakfast and lunch to all students in the city school system free of charge.

Meteorologists from the National Weather Service confirmed after surveying damage that a tornado with maximum winds of around 90 miles per hour touched down Monday just south of the Dixie Speedway near Woodstock, meteorologist Jessica Fieux said.

The woman killed in a crash Tuesday morning on Interstate 985 near Flowery Branch has been identified.

More than 1,000 homes have been destroyed in at least 57 wildfires across rain-starved Texas, most of them in one devastating blaze close to Austin that is still raging out of control, officials said Tuesday.

Searchers found the body Tuesday of a man who was swept into a fast-moving creek as Tropical Storm Lee pummeled Georgia, while authorities across the state continued cleaning roads and investigating suspected tornado damage to roughly 100 homes in Cherokee County.

A new government report shows fewer U.S. adults are smoking, and those who light up are smoking fewer cigarettes daily. But the trend is weaker than the government had hoped.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is making preparations for prolonged drought conditions in north Georgia and the impact they will have on Lake Lanier.

A robbery suspect remains at large after he tried to rob the Shell convenience store on Monroe Drive in south Gainesville Monday night.

The Gainesville City Council (GCC) holds a public hearing tonight on reapportionment of the city's political wards.