Ken Stanford

The plane sought permission to climb above threatening clouds. Air traffic control couldn't say yes immediately - there was no room. Six other airliners were crowding the airspace, forcing AirAsia Flight 8501 to remain at a lower altitude.

Being uninsured in America will cost you more in 2015, the first year all taxpayers have to report to the Internal Revenue Service whether they had health insurance for the previous year, as required under President Barack Obama's health care law.

As awareness of America's sex-trafficking industry increases, state after state has enacted new laws to combat it. But while a few have backed those get-tough laws with significant funding to support trafficking victims, many have not.

A lonesome train whistle will mark the end of an era on the University of Georgia campus this week, or at least the beginning of the end.

Lanier Technical College has been named one of the country's fastest-growing community colleges.

Farmers already scrambling to find workers in California - the nation's leading grower of fruits, vegetables and nuts - fear an even greater labor shortage under President Barack Obama's executive action to block some 5 million people from deportation.

Warning from President Barack Obama to congressional Republicans: I have a veto pen and, come January, I won't be afraid to use it.

A banker from Murrayville has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Georgia Lottery Corporation and a Gainesville woman has been named to a new term on the state Board of Pharmacy.