Ken Stanford

Road Atlanta's premiere motorcycle race, the AMA Suzuki Superbike Showdown, returns this weekend with AMA Pro American Superbike, AMA Pro Daytona SportBike, and AMA SuperSport championship points races on both Saturday and Sunday.

The state has rested in the Hall Superior Court murder trial of Hugo Tepanca, a Gainesville man accused of gunning down another Gainesville man two years ago. A defense witness Thursday traced events that possibly provoked the shooting.

Firemen were on the scene of a house fire in Braselton for about five hours this Thursday morning.

With Gainesville and Dalton leading the way, first-time unemploymnet insurance claims are down in Georgia by 28 percent from a month ago.

Montgomery police say a northeast Georgia man who killed himself during a standoff with Atlanta police last week is - as they suspected - the same man who tried to abduct a 10-year-old girl in Montgomery a few days earlier.

Benjamin L. Hooks, a champion of minorities and the poor who as executive director of the NAACP increased the group's stature, has died. He was 85.

There are no reports of injuries among the 16 students on a Hall County school bus that was involved in a traffic accident Thursday morning.

A group of citizens has formally complained to the governor's office against two members of the Hall County Commission.

Tea party activists will gather at the state Capitol Thursday night for the second annual tax day rally, one of several such events planned around the state Thursday.

There's an end in sight for this year's marathon state legislative session.