Ken Stanford

United Community Bank is recognizing 10 top performing individuals and bank teams who exhibited sales and service excellence during the fourth quarter. The recognition is part of the bank

Gays and lesbians could get licenses to marry in more than half of Alabama's counties Friday after a federal judge affirmed her ruling striking down the state's same-sex marriage ban.

Long-time Democratic Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber on Friday announced his resignation amid allegations his fiancee used her relationship with him to enrich herself.

Local poultry businesses have contributed $10,000 to the University of North Georgia (UNG) to support scholarships for students studying poultry science and pursuing careers in the industry - and a North High School graduate, now attending UNG, has landed an internship with a leading poultry processor.

This winter's nasty flu season has peaked and is clearly retreating, a new government report shows.

Exasperated New Englanders still digging out from three major storms that left 6 feet of snow in many areas are bracing for what's expected to be another punishing winter blast.

Just hours after the FBI said it was entering the investigation, Muslim groups revealed plans to take their demands for a federal hate-crime investigation of three young Muslims slain in North Carolina to the White House on Friday.

Officers killed a man accused of hurling rocks in the fourth fatal police shooting since last summer, a death that is shaking this agricultural city of 68,000 in southeastern Washington and drawing criticism from as far away as Mexico.

Plans by Left Nut Brewing Company, Inc., to locate a micro-brewery in Gainesville's Midtown have fallen through but the developer is not giving up. Nilanjan Datta now has his eyes set on a site in the Chicopee area south of town.