Ken Stanford

The temperature setting is stuck on broil across a swath of the Midwest and South, with Dallas and Oklahoma City sweltering through 100-degree heat for at least 10 days in a row.

Speaker John Boehner says he agrees with President Barack Obama that the nation's borrowing limit must be raised to avoid a government default but insists that House Republicans won't back any deal with tax increases.

The heat wave has tightened its grip on Georgia and the drought has pushed farther north in the state.

President Barack Obama declared on Monday there would be no deal on raising the government's debt limit if Republicans won't compromise, and he said he would not sign a short-term extension - raising the stakes on volatile negotiations with the clock ticking toward a Aug. 2 deadline.

A homeless man is facing attempted kidnapping charges following an incident over the weekend on the south side of Gainesville.

A 62-year-old Demorest man died over the weekend after falling from a boat while fishing in a Habersham County lake.

The decision to suspend more than one-third of American military aid to Pakistan could end up hurting Washington more than Islamabad as the U.S. seeks to navigate an end to the Afghan war and defeat al-Qaida, former Pakistani officials and analysts warned Monday.

Hall County commissioners plan to discuss turning over trash collection to private operators.

Georgia gasoline prices surged last week after weeks of decline and are up 11 cents compared to a week ago.

Gwinnett County police say a standoff with a man who had barricaded himself inside his Buford home is over.