Ken Stanford

Gainesville real estate executive Frank Norton, Jr., who helped fuel the debate over the Hall County budget and a possible tax increase several weeks ago, has filed an Opens Records request asking for documentation about sheriff's department funding and spending.

Hall County has set the dates and times for hearings on a possible tax increase as it begins the formal process of notifying county residents that a tax increase of 1.41 mills in possible this year.

The federal government Monday launches a review of safety procedures on the Chattahoochee River near the Buford Dam.

The NAACP is calling for an investigation of complaints about the use of excessive force by law enforcement officers in Barrow County.

A power outage on the west side of Gainesville Sunday night was caused by a falling tree.

Four decades after the Pentagon Papers began appearing in The New York Times, triggering a constitutional crisis over freedom of the press, the once top-secret study of the Vietnam War is being released.

In this northwest Georgia town where many work in the local carpet factories, people crammed into a community center to learn about Georgia's new law cracking down on illegal immigration

Two photos of a smiling Rep. Gabrielle Giffords were released early Sunday by her office, her hair shorn short but few other telling signs of her gunshot wound to the head.

An eye-stinging, throat-burning haze of smoke spewing from a gigantic wildfire in eastern Arizona is beginning to stretch as far east as central New Mexico, prompting health officials to warn residents as far away as Albuquerque about potential respiratory hazards.

The al-Qaida mastermind behind the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was killed this week at a security checkpoint in Mogadishu by Somali forces who didn't immediately realize he was the most wanted man in East Africa, officials said Saturday.