Ken Stanford

With the census six months away, the Commerce Department says it won't seek to halt immigration raids as a way to boost participation in hard-to-count communities.

A fire about 10:00 Thursday night at ST&T Mobile Home Park destroyed one unit there.

A bill that passed the house Thursday over the objections of 9th District Congressman Nathan Deal includes language he feels could adversely impact the use of Lake Lanier by the state.

A Bibb County sheriff's deputy who was serving in the Georgia Army National Guard has been killed in Afghanistan.

The state Department of Education released the final AYP report for the year Thursday and it confirms that all Hall County schools made Adequately Yearly Progress, while for the Gainesville School System only the middle school failed to achieve AYP. In all, 20 school systems in northeast Georgia made AYP.

A test will be run on Tuesday on all of the voting machines that will be used in the November 3 Gainesville city elections.

Georgia's high school graduation rate is up this year, with nearly eight out of 10 students getting diplomas.

Dawson, Dooly, Heard, Houston, Peach, Rockdale and Taylor counties are now eligible for public assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to help recover from the severe weather and floods that swept through Georgia last week.

A Gainesville State College student has been sentenced to eight years in prison for the hit-and-run death last year of a 12-year-old Athens boy who was bicycling near his home in Clarke County.

A second-grader from Dalton has died from swine flu.