Ken Stanford

A former member of the Gainesville City Council and Gainesville Planning & Appeals Board died Saturday at his home and a memorial service for him will be held later this week.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry joined the 2012 GOP race for president Saturday with an announcement sure to reverberate halfway across the country as his rivals competed in Iowa for the support of party activists.

Gunmen abducted an American after breaking into his house in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Saturday in an unusually brazen raid that illustrated the threat to foreigners in this militancy-wracked, U.S.-allied country.

Plans to work the entire weekend again on the Georgia Highway 365 resurfacing between Lula and Cornelia have been scrapped because of forecasts of rain.

Hours after state Republican lawmakers unveiled their proposal for Georgia's new political boundaries, Democrats continued to decry the plans as harmful to minority voters and incumbents, setting the stage for a future legal challenge.

New political boundaries unveiled Friday would, if adopted, give Hall County eight representatives in the state Legislature as opposed to the five who currently represent the county.

Gainesville and Sandy Springs police are investigating a carjacking and kidnapping that started in Gainesville and ended in north Fulton County Wednesday afternoon.

Assistant County Administrator Marty Nix announces that Mike Little is now the acting director for Hall County Parks and Leisure Services.

Alabama and Florida are appealing a ruling that handed metro Atlanta a big victory in a tri-state fight over water.

Community Bank & Trust says it will be closing eight of its branches in Northeast Georgia.