Ken Stanford

Americans cut back on their spending in June for the first time in nearly two years and their incomes grew by the smallest amount in nine months, a troubling sign for an economy that is barely growing.

Authorities who charged a Barrow County man with killing his wife are now looking into the death of his first wife in 1990.

The Georgia Attorney General's Office has published a list of identification documents that may be used to get benefits and services from state and local agencies.

Hot weather continues across Georgia, and the National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for portions of the state.

The White County Board of Education Monday began conducting interviews with some of the 32 applicants for schools superintendent.

The Obama administration is challenging Alabama's new immigration law that allows police to detain people they suspect of being illegal immigrants after a traffic stop. Meanwhile, state officials say the law will not keep illegal immigrants from enrolling in the state's public schools.

The Goddard School in Flowery Branch participated recently in a Children's Expo benefiting Rahab's Rope and other local charities.

The two men who represent northeast Georgia in Congress voted against the debt limit bill that easily passed the House Monday night.

The House has passed legislation designed to keep the government from defaulting on its debts. The measure also sets a course for reducing the federal deficit in the future.

A half-century after the advent of the pill, the Obama administration on Monday ushered in a change in women's health care potentially as transformative: coverage of birth control as prevention, with no copays.