Ken Stanford

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that his army is taking the offensive against the Islamic State group but needs more air power and heavy weaponry to prevail.

The annual Christmas on Green Street brought crowds of people to north Gainesville Sunday afternoon.

Veto brinkmanship between congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama was virtually absent in his first six years in office, but it's about to unleash itself on Washington.

Twice in less than four months, police in Ohio have opened fire with real bullets on young people carrying lookalike guns, raising anguished questions about what could have prevented the deadly encounters.

A University of Georgia climate expert says last month turned out to be one of the five coldest Novembers on record for much of the state.

Four of the remaining nine USS Arizona survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack are vowing this year's anniversary won't be their last reunion.

Typhoon Hagupit knocked out power, left at least two people dead and sent nearly 900,000 into shelters before it weakened Sunday, sparing the central Philippines the type of massive devastation that a monster storm brought to the region last year.

Six prisoners held for 12 years at Guantanamo Bay have been sent to Uruguay to be resettled as refugees, the U.S. government announced Sunday - a deal that had been delayed for months by security concerns at the Pentagon and political considerations in the South American country.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) has been designated as a top school by Military Advanced Education (MAE) in its "2015 MAE Guide to Colleges & Universities," which measures best practices in military and veteran education.