Ken Stanford

The Flowery Branch City Council has approved a list of projects to be funded by an extension of the Special Purchase Local Option Sales Tax which is to be voted on in March.

Some victims of the Colorado theater shooting are outraged that the parents of suspect James Holmes are pleading for him to be spared the death penalty just weeks before his trial is set to begin.

Hall County has launched its redesigned website, which, a county spokeswoman says, features a more modern, updated design and provides citizens with easier access to County information and services online.

An Arizona sheriff known for crackdowns on people living in the country illegally is giving up his last major foothold in immigration enforcement efforts that won him popularity among voters but gradually were reined in by Washington and the courts. Meanwhile, a judge has cleared the way for thousands of young immigrants in the state to get a driver's license.

During a recent ceremony, the Forsyth County Fire Department presented a number of awards, promoted personnel, graduated its first ever in-house EMT class, and graduated its newest recruit class.

Chrysler is recalling nearly 257,000 older Ram pickup trucks because the rear axle can seize or the drive shaft can fall off.

Pakistani warplanes and ground forces killed at least 77 militants in a northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said Friday, days after Taliban fighters killed 148 people - most of them children - in a school massacre.

Suspicions that North Korea was behind a destructive hacking attack against Sony Pictures and a threat against movie theaters are intensifying calls for tougher U.S. steps to cut that country's access to hard currency and declare it once more as a state sponsor of terrorism.

An audit is raising questions on potentially frivolous spending in the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services.