Ken Stanford

International forces killed the Taliban insurgents responsible for shooting down a U.S. helicopter and killing 38 U.S. and Afghan forces over the weekend, but they are still seeking the top insurgent leader they were going after in Saturday's mission, the top American commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

The Georgia Board of Regents is raising health insurance premiums for employees and cutting coverage for about 700 workers.

When the dust settles on the redrawing of Hall County Commission district lines, it looks like Ashley Bell's district will have added people and Craig Lutz' will have lost some.

A number of competitors have banded together to add to the $3,000 reward fund being offered in the theft of $10,000 worth of equipment and materials from a Gainesville crime scene/trauma clean-up company.

The Gainesville City Council plans two hearings on redistricting of city political boundardies over the next few days.

The proliferation of bank failures in Georgia has drawn the attention of Congress.

Police and sheriff's departments in states that produce much of the nation's methamphetamine have made a sudden retreat in the war on meth, at times virtually abandoning pursuit of the drug because they can no longer afford to clean up the toxic waste generated by labs.

A stand by Wisconsin Republicans against a massive effort to oust them from power could reverberate across the country as the battle over union rights and the conservative revolution heads toward the 2012 presidential race.

American-fired missiles killed 20 Islamist militants in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, most of them members of a powerful insurgent network fighting the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The Georgia Appalachian Center for Higher Education (GACHE) has awarded a grant in the amount of $4,000 to Wood