Ken Stanford

First-time claims for unemployment insurance (UI) in Georgia were down 15.7 percent in November, compared to a year ago.

Several schools in northeast Georgia are among 38 in the state that have been removed from the Priority and Focus Schools lists, according to the state Department of Education.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday refused to block gay marriages in Florida, the latest of about three dozen states allowing same-sex weddings.

North Korea on Saturday proposed a joint investigation with the U.S. into the hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment, warning of "serious" consequences if Washington rejects a probe that it believes would prove Pyongyang had nothing to do with the cyberattack.

Oil and gas companies led the stock market up Friday, helping the Standard & Poor's 500 index notch its second-best week this year.

Two physicians from The Longstreet Clinic recently were elected to positions with the Medical Association of Georgia.

Despite growing public support for legalizing marijuana, a lawsuit filed by Nebraska and Oklahoma shows that at least two segments of American society are prepared to fight the idea before the nation's highest court - social conservatives and law enforcement.

Health officials say the flu is now hitting hard in parts of the country, especially the South and Midwest.

President Barack Obama declared Friday that Sony Pictures Entertainment "made a mistake" in shelving a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea's leader and pledged the U.S. would respond "in a place and manner and time that we choose" to the hack attack on Sony that the FBI blamed on the communist government.

In July 2004, despite growing internal concerns about some of the CIA's interrogation methods, senior members of George W. Bush's national security team gave the agency permission to employ the harsh tactics against an al Qaida facilitator the agency suspected was linked to a plot to disrupt the upcoming presidential election.