Ken Stanford

Continued questions over South Carolina State University's ability to get its finances in order prompted a House budget-writing panel to propose temporarily closing the state's only public historically black college.

Academy Sports + Outdoors plans to open a store in Gainesville later this year, employing about 125.

Jim Walters and Martha Nesbitt are this year's Rotary Club of Gainesville Man and Woman of the Year.

A virgin birth has been reported at North Georgia Zoo in Cleveland.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hank Klibanoff will speak Wednesday on behalf of the Civil Rights Cold Case Project in one of several events honoring Black History Month at the University of North Georgia (UNG).

U.S. stocks gained Tuesday as investors assessed the latest corporate news.

Drivers at drunken-driving checkpoints don't have to speak to police or even roll down their windows. They just have to place their license and registration on the glass, along with a note saying they have no comment, won't permit a search and want a lawyer. At least, that's the view of a South Florida attorney.

An Alabama woman is facing a disorderly conduct charge after offering to perform a same-sex wedding inside a courthouse.

President Barack Obama feigned opposition to gay marriage for most of his political career, compromising his true beliefs out of concern it could hurt him with voters, Obama's longtime political adviser disclosed in a new book.