Ken Stanford

U.S. stocks are closing lower after a see-saw day, extending the market's losses to a fourth day.

Jackson Electric Membership Corporation (EMC) is now accepting applications for Bright Ideas, a new program aimed at funding "creative, innovative" classroom projects developed by teachers.

Hall County's population increased to 190,761 between July 1 2013 and July 1 2014, according to estimates released by the Census Bureau Thursday.

Witness statements suggest that a metro Atlanta police officer was initially 180 feet away from a naked, mentally ill man and could have retreated or used nonlethal force rather than shooting him, an attorney for the late man's family said Wednesday.

Fewer people sought U.S. unemployment benefits last week, evidence that strong hiring should continue despite signs of slower economic growth at the start of 2015.

Hall County Fire Services raised more money than any other fire department in the state during the annual "Give Burns the Boot" fundraiser, benefiting the Georgia Firefighters Burn Foundation.

The Senate is up next after House Republicans pushed through a boldly conservative budget eliminating deficits over the next decade by cutting deeply into Medicaid, food stamps and welfare, and repealing the president's health care law.

The co-pilot of a Germanwings flight that slammed into an Alpine mountainside "intentionally" sent the plane into its doomed descent, a French prosecutor said Thursday.