Ken Stanford

The Georgia Mountains Regional Commission recently handed out its annual awards at it's Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner which was held at the Dillard House in Rabun County:

Executions and new death sentences dropped to their lowest numbers in decades in 2014, an anti-death penalty group said in a new report.

North Georgia Technical College recently announced its nominees for the state's Rick Perkins Award for Excellence in Technical Education. NGTC also recently recognized a number of employees for their length of service to the school.

The U.S. stock market is closing with its biggest gain in more than a year after the Federal Reserve said it was in no rush to raise rates.

President Barack Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba on Wednesday and declared an end to America's "outdated approach" to the communist island in a historic shift aimed at ending a half-century of Cold War enmity.

Fourteen owners or employees of a Massachusetts pharmacy were charged Wednesday in connection with a 2012 meningitis outbreak that killed 64 people nationwide and was traced to tainted drug injections.

The United States and Cuba will start talks on normalizing full diplomatic relations, marking the most significant shift in U.S. policy toward the communist island in decades, American officials said Wednesday. The announcement comes amid a series of new confidence-building measures between the longtime foes, including the release of American Alan Gross and the freeing of three Cubans jailed in the U.S.

The Chestatee High School robotics team, the CHS RACE Eaglemaniacs, recently earned the right to compete in the upcoming state championship.