Ken Stanford

A shooter wounded two boys and a girl outside an alternative high school Friday in what may be a gang-related attack, Portland police said.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed more than 300 points lower Friday, its worst loss in two months.

The incoming Republican chairman of the House Budget panel says he's going to follow outgoing chairman Paul Ryan's lead by drafting a fiscal blueprint that would balance the budget in 10 years and call for transforming Medicare into a system that places future retirees in private health insurance plans.

Grant funding is enabling the Forsyth County Fire Department to provide fire safety devices to hearing impaired residents of the county.

U.S. stocks dropped Friday as the rout in oil continues and a report indicated that growth in China, the world's second-largest economy, continues to slow.

The economic recovery has not been equal among the races, a Pew Research Center study shows.

A dangerous storm system blamed for two deaths in Oregon, thousands of power outages in Washington and flooded roadways in the San Francisco Bay Area pushed into Southern California on Friday, causing mudslides and evacuations.

Students from Play On Players in Gainesville and a cast of younger students in the same group, The Petite Poppers, have been accepted into the 2015 Junior Theater Festival happening January 16-18 in Atlanta.