Ken Stanford

The man charged in the beating death of a hiker in northeast Georgia has become a suspect in a similar case in North Carolina.

As the Georgia House of Representatives opened the 2008 session Monday, 12 of Governor Perdue's vetos were overidden.

About one in five students in the Gainesville School System come from a family living in poverty, but that's down from one-in-three ten years earlier.

Retail sales are expected to rise at the slowest pace in six years as shoppers worry about a slumping housing market and slower job growth, according to the world's largest retail trade organization.

The Longstreet Clinic announces the addition of Nurse Practitioner Linda S. Collins to its Family Medicine practice in Oakwood.

AT&T Inc. has announced the activation of three new cell sites in north Georgia.

Republican activist Brad Farrow of Flowery Branch has been named Chairman of the Mike Huckabee for President campaign in Hall County.

A Decatur real estate appraiser has been ordered to prison for his part in a fraud scheme involving unfinished houses in Forsyth County.

An 11-year-old boy was hospitalized after being shot in the stomach by a group of children who had a gun.

Gainesville has come to the rescue of its railroad history icon, Engine 209, which was suffering the effects of weather and some faulty paint - following a paint job three years ago that was to last ten years.