Ken Stanford

About 50 Taliban militants died in a battle in western Afghanistan after an insurgent ambush killed three U.S. troops, an Afghan official said Sunday.

About 50 civilians, security forces and militants were killed in a wave of violence around Afghanistan, including a bomb that left 14 Afghan travelers dead in one of the country's most dangerous regions. Five American soldiers died in two attacks using roadside bombs.

A search is over west of Gainesville for an elderly woman discovered missing from her Browns Bridge Road home early Saturday... and she appears okay.

Science meets Christianity in a new Creation Research Center being built in White County.

Influenza is circulating unusually early this year with cases in all 50 states nearly all the swine flu variety, government health officials said Friday. The Southeast has been especially hard hit.

A case of animal cruelty - involving the deaths of 16 animals - is under investigation in North Hall.

Gwinnett County Schools filed suit Friday - as expected - against a new state law that created a state charter school commission, alleging the district is being illegally forced to fund a Norcross charter school.

The deadline for getting your name in the hat if you want to be in the running for a boat dock on Lake Lanier is fast-approaching.

Georgia's tax collections dropped about 16 percent in August over the same month last year, but Gov. Sonny Perdue's office said Friday that exceptional circumstances were largely to blame and said there are no plans yet for more budget cuts.

Groundbreaking was held Friday morning for the first new industrial park in Gainesville in ten years.