Ken Stanford

With the new year, comes a new owner of a Spout Springs sewer plant that serves three South Hall subdivisions.

There may be a housing slump but one developer is starting the new year with a pitch to county planners for a 261-lot subdivision west of Gainesville.

A Hall County school - Myers Elementary - singled out by a state educators' group for winning a national garden-design contest.

Some stores in Gainesville opened well before daybreak - just hours after closing for the weekend - Monday to accommodate last-minute shoppers

Safe Kids/Gainesville-Hall County says they've been getting calls from people wondering - in light of the recent recalls - just how safe toys are this Christmas.

Government employees have used state-issued purchasing cards for everything from tattoos to concert tickets, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of three years of records.

Americans are falling behind on their credit card payments at an alarming rate, sending delinquencies and defaults surging by double-digit percentages in the last year and prompting warnings of worse to come.

At the height of his power, former House Speaker Tom Murphy, who died last week at age 83, was the epitome of the Democratic machine that had dominated Georgia since Reconstruction. His defeat in 2002 signaled the beginning of an exile for Democrats in the state And his beloved party has yet to recover.

It's been well-documented in recent weeks that the receding waters of drought-stricken Lake Lanier are yielding a lake bed littered with reminders of the past - beer and soft drink cans, fishing equipment, sunken boats, even a race track grandstand. But, police say it's also revealing stolen cars and guns, as well.

Tom Murphy's funeral was a bit like the House of Representatives he ruled for almost a decade.