Ken Stanford

Gusty winds and lightning knocked down trees and power lines across Georgia, leaving thousands of people without electricity.

State Labor Commissioner Mark Butler says Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate stayed at 9.8 percent last month, and there was a slight increase in payroll jobs.

Federal immigration authorities are beginning a new round of investigations designed to make sure businesses hire only people authorized to work in the U.S.

A new wrinkle has emerged in the Hall County budget discussions: you may end up seeing more trash along county roads and highways.

The White County Board of Commissioners has given final approval to a tight fiscal year 2012 budget but without having to raise taxes.

The terrorist described as the linchpin in the hunt for Osama bin Laden has rejoined al-Qaida after the Bush administration released him from a secret CIA secret prison under pressure from Pakistan, according to former and current U.S. intelligence officials.

A temporary earthen levee is the only barrier standing between Hamburg and the floodwaters of the Missouri River, and officials hope efforts to beef it up will be enough to keep the small southwestern Iowa town from filling up like a bathtub.

Consumers paid more for food, cars and clothing in May, though overall consumer prices rose by the smallest amount in six months.

Firefighters responded to a report of four people stranded on the rocks in the middle of the Chattahoochee River in Norcross when the water rose after a release from Buford Dam.

Four more northeast Georgia counties have begun sharing biometric information with federal immigration authorities to help identify criminal immigrants.