Ken Stanford

Hundreds of people, some carrying signs reading "no hate in our state," gathered Saturday outside the Indiana Statehouse for a boisterous rally against a new state law that opponents say could sanction discrimination against gay people.

Seven people were injured, some critically, during an early-morning spray of gunfire Saturday at a spring break party on the Florida Panhandle, police said. An Alabama man was quickly apprehended and charged with attempted murder.

Through a recent partnership with Mountain Education Charter (MEC) School, which operates at eleven sites in North Georgia, inmates at Lee Arrendale State Prison in Alto now have the chance to finish high school, by earning their high school diplomas.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) Department of Athletics will host "A Field of Dreams: Make-A-Wish Day" on Tuesday, April 7 to honor Royce "Cailen" Rundles, a fourth-grader at Mount Vernon Elementary School in Gainesville.

Two Russians and an American floated into the International Space Station on Saturday, beginning what is to be a year away from Earth for two of them.

The heat over Indiana's new religious objections law spread Friday across social media and to the White House as many local officials and business groups around the state tried to jump in and stem the fallout.

The Harris Products Group recently announced a donation of $25,000 to Challenged Child and Friends, the Gainesville organization that assists families of children with disabilities through inclusive education, therapies, awareness programs and other services.

Italy's highest court overturned the murder conviction against Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Friday, bringing to a definitive end the high-profile case that captivated people on both sides of the Atlantic.