Ken Stanford

The University of Maryland has hired Damon Evans, former athletics director at the University of Georgia, as its senior associate athletics director/chief financial officer.

Three northeast Georgia residents have been appointed - or reappointed - to two state boards by Gov. Nathan Deal in recent days.

The crowds of bargain shoppers rushing through store doors the day after Thanksgiving are thinning out.

A former northeast Georgia educator and former state Schools Superintendent, Jack Nix, who was born in Cleveland, has died.

President Barack Obama tried to draw attention to independently owned businesses on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, a day that is increasingly being marketed as one for deal-hungry consumers to remember to patronize these outlets while doing their holiday shopping.

Black Friday seemed a little less crazy this year.

A former sheriff of Jackson County, who also owned and operated a men's clothing store in Commerce for 14 years, has died.

Christmas trees likely will cost a little more this year, and growers like John Tillman say it's about time.