Ken Stanford

World stock markets rose Monday, with buying appetite getting a boost from Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke's prediction that the U.S. economy will eventually return to full health.

"Hearts Awakened" is the theme for a pro-Israel prayer rally scheduled in Gainesville later this week.

The number of first-time unemployment claims filed in Georgia during July was down 9.6 percent compared to July a year ago

Dr. Jack Cheng has joined the Northeast Georgia Physicians Group at Chestnut Mountain.

A drive-thru restaurant is in the works for the busy Browns Bridge Road/McEver Road intersection.

Labor Day is usually associated with cookouts, a trip to the lake or mountains, or other outdoor activities as summer begins to wind down.

U.S. Rep. Tom Graves (R-GA-09) will join a bipartisan Congressional mission to Israel next week aimed at strengthening American-Israeli ties and learning more about the latest regional security and economic issues and the impact on the interests of the United States.

Allendale County deputies say they have a man who escaped from a northeast Georgia deputy sheriff surrounded in the woods.

Three men convicted in the nightmarish slayings of three Cub Scouts went free Friday, nearly two decades after they were sent to prison in a case so gruesome it raised suspicions the children had been sacrificed in a Satanic ritual.

Three people died in a flash flood on Friday after heavy rains submerged cars in Pittsburgh and authorities said they were searching for other possible victims.