Ken Stanford

The Georgia 400/Georgia 53 intersection in Dawson County is in for a reconstruction and the state Department of Transportation will discuss the plans in a meeting in Dawsonville next week.

The Barrow County Sheriff's Office is investigating an explosive device that was found in front of a county commissioner's home.

A group of black clergy members is calling on lawmakers and the federal government to pass comprehensive immigration reform as soon as possible.

Gainesville police hope an autopsy will tell them what killed a 28-year-old man who died while playing softball over the weekend at the Lanier Point Athletic complex.

The consultant at the center of a controversy over the fees he was being paid by Hall County and under what circumstances has resigned his seat on the county library board.

The City of Gainesville is trying to get the word out that although the item is still on the agenda, there will be no discussion on the plans to change garbage pickup service at Tuesday night's city council meeting but that the council will discuss increasing parking fines.

The lives of nearly 900 babies would be saved each year, along with billions of dollars, if 90 percent of U.S. women breast-fed their babies for the first six months of life, a cost analysis says.

A powerful earthquake swayed buildings from Los Angeles to Tijuana, killing two people in Mexico, blacking out cities, and forcing the evacuation of hospitals and nursing homes.

Tony McBrayer has always had an inkling he might want to run for office someday. But it was the rise of the anti-government tea party movement that convinced the South Georgia businessman to finally put his name on the ballot.

Buoyed by good news on the jobs front, the White House claimed credit Sunday for reversing the downward economic spiral while bracing out-of-work Americans for a slow recovery.