Ken Stanford

One of the three people arrested in an Arizona home invasion that left a little girl and her father dead has been charged with the 1997 slaying of an Hispanic man in Washington state.

Construction of new homes has jumped in May by the largest amount in three months, providing an encouraging sign that the nation's deep housing recession was beginning to bottom out.

Iran's powerful Guardian Council is ready to recount specific ballot boxes in last week's disputed presidential elections, a council spokesman said Tuesday, another twist in an election that has touched off widespread protests and left seven dead in new street clashes Tuesday.

No one was injured Monday night when a dump truck overturned on Browns Bridge Road just west of Gainesville.

Nearly 5,000 new U.S. swine flu cases have been reported in the last week, due partly to its continuing spread in the Northeast.

Iranians packed polling stations from boutique-lined streets in north Tehran to conservative bastions in the countryside Friday with a choice that's left the nation divided and on edge: keeping hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in power or electing a reformist who favors greater freedoms and improved ties with the United States.

Bids will be opened next week on a resufacing project on Georgia 365 north of Gainesville,using ecoomic stimulus money.

An autopsy shows a detainee at a federal immigration detention center in south Georgia died of natural causes.

The pending merger of a Gainesville American Legion Post with one in Buford will be marked Saturday with an outing at the Buford post.

Starting in the morning and going into the night, TV stations across the U.S. are cutting their analog signals Friday, ending a six-decade era for the technology and likely stranding more than 1 million unprepared homes without TV service.