Ken Stanford

Amanda Holcomb Yenerall joins Gainesville-based Stewart Melvin & Frost as an associate attorney after passing the Georgia bar exam.

Six employees at Clarity were awarded certificates for completing the Wilson Learning Worldwide national sales performance evaluation program.

Delta Air Lines shares fell five percent today after a top executive said the airline is freezing hiring in certain areas as part of a cost-cutting move aimed at dealing with high fuel prices that will weaken fourth-quarter results.

A grand jury has decided not to re-indict former Jefferson police chief Darren Glenn on charges that he used police computers and equipment while working on cases for his wife's private investigation firm.

From the salty marshes and ocean shoreline of the Georgia coast to the majestic skyline of the Blue Ridge Mountains, 12 Georgia communities - including Gainesville - have been selected as the official Host Venues for the sixth annual Tour de Georgia.

The campus residence policy at North Georgia College & State University, established in the early 1970s, is being modified to create equal access to residence halls for all students on the Dahlonega campus.

The state of Georgia says that although it has no contracts in place, it has liined up vendors to bring in bottled water and tanker trucks that could dispense water into jugs, jars and buckets.

Bobby Gruhn, the late longtime head football coach at Gainesville High School, has been named to the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame.

Thirty-nine Hall County high schoolers and a Brenau Academy student have been selected as finalists for the 2008 Governor's Honors Program.

Immigration agents in the Southeast who focus on finding fugitives arrested four times the number of illegal immigrants in fiscal year 2007 as they did in the previous year - and agents in the Southwest report arresting two illegals who served prison time in Georgia as they tried to re-enter the country.