Ken Stanford

It appears that a convicted Hall County killer was the mastermind behind the foiled escape plot by three death row inmates at the state prison in Jackson - and it looks like they may have had inside help.

REL Properties has enhanced its offer of an elementary school site, adding more acreage and green space for the Gainesville City School
System (GCSS).

Those planned outdoor holiday weekend activities in Northeast Georgia could take a hit from the remnants of Hurricane Frances.

More than 5,000 Pilgrim's Pride poultry workers - including those at one Northeast Georgia plant - are preparing for what their union says could be the largest mobilization of employees faced by the Texas-based company to date.

Parts of four downtown Gainesville streets will be closed for about six hours Saturday for the 2004 Downtown Gainesville Gran Prix and associated activities.

Just as many United Way organizations from around the country sent funds to help families in Hall County after the tornado in 1998, United Way of Hall County has made a donation of $5,000 to help United Ways throughout Florida.

The UGA study of the Mundy Mill Development proposal is now complete and the Gainesville school board chairman says it closely mirrors the school board's earlier findings: more than 1,200 new students for the school system.

Led by North Hall, last year's SAT scores for Hall County high schools show a significant improvement over last year, according to school system officials.

The consultant who conducted a study of the impact on the Mundy Mill project for the developer says the conclusions of the latest study conducted for the Gainesville school are inaccurate because of "major deficiencies."

More than 600 Georgia Power customers were affected by an outage early Wednesday in the East Hall area.