The North Georgia Community Foundation has opened the application period for scholarships administered by the Foundation. The deadline for area high school seniors to apply is March 5.
Construction of new homes rebounded in December, helping to push activity for the entire year to the highest level since the peak of the housing boom nine years ago.
A followup to November's rally in Gainesville in the aftermath of the grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case in Ferguson, Mo., is planned Thursday night at a local church.
A Palestinian man stabbed 11 people on and near a bus in central Tel Aviv on Wednesday, seriously wounding three of them before he was shot and arrested by Israeli police.
Lawyers for the state of Georgia have asked a federal judge to stop any action on a challenge to the state's ban on gay marriage until the U.S. Supreme Court has a chance to rule on the issue.
