Ken Stanford

Qualifying ended Friday with candidates for all but five Hall County offices wihtout any opposition... and Clerk of Courts Dwight Wood did not qualify to seek another term and Congressman Nathan Deal picking up opposition.

The Hall County District Attorney confirmed Friday he will not press murder charges against a Hall County couple in the death of a woman authorities say was the victim of elder abuse.

Employers cut far fewer jobs in April than in recent months and the unemployment rate dropped to 5 percent, a better-than-expected showing that nonetheless still revealed strains in the nation's crucial labor market.

The funeral for a soldier from Maysville, who died in combat in Iraq, will be held Saturday.

Thousands of chanting, flag-waving immigrants and activists rallied in cities across the country Thursday, attempting to reinvigorate calls for immigration reform in a presidential election year in which the economy has taken center stage.

The chief of staff to Congressman Nathan Deal of Gainesville is returning more than $90,000 in salary to Deal's campaign after a Capitol Hill newspaper discovered that he earned nearly $250,000 in 2006 and had repeatedly exceeded the cap on outside income for congressional staffers.

State Rep. Amos Amerson, R-Dahlonega, qualified Thursday to seek another term in the Georgia General Assembly.

A woman and her son, alerted by smoke alarms, escaped unharmed from their burning home on the north side of Gainesville early Thursday.

Today marks the start of smog season in metro Atlanta.

Hispanics in Georgia now make up nearly 8 percent of the population and 15 percent of the country's.