Ken Stanford

The Dow Jones industrial average turned lower Friday as traders focused on Europe's latest efforts to contain the region's debt crisis.

A drug investigation leads to the arrest of a Buford man after he allegedly delivered a pound of marijuana to undercover drug agents in Flowery Branch.

A bi-partisan meeting Monday night will examine how reapportionment might impact Forsyth County.

Hall County administrative offices, courts and community centers will be closed Monday for an employee furlough day and Gainesville State College will be closed part of the day but for a different reason.

Hiring picked up slightly in July and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.1 percent, an optimistic sign after the worst day on Wall Street in nearly three years.

Libya's rebels said Friday they have reports that Moammar Gadhafi's youngest son, who commands one of the regime's strongest military brigades, was killed in a NATO airstrike in the western town of Zlitan.

Last month was the fifth hottest July on record in Georgia.

Global stock markets tumbled Friday amid fears the U.S. may be heading back into recession and Europe's debt crisis is worsening. The sell-off follows the biggest one-day points decline on Wall Street since the 2008 financial crisis.

Congress has reached a bipartisan compromise to end a two-week partial shutdown of the Federal Aviation Administration that has idled tens of thousands of workers and cost the government about $30 million a day in uncollected airline ticket taxes, Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

Art Kunzer of Gainesville had a hole-in-one Thursday at Chattahoochee Golf Club.