Ken Stanford

U.S. home prices rose in September at the slowest pace in more than two years, reflecting modest sales gains and a rising number of available homes. Meanwhile, the economy grew at a solid 3.9 percent annual rate in the July-September period, even faster than first reported, giving the country its strongest six months of growth in more than a decade.

A memorial service will be held Wednesday for Bobby Gene Black, 73, a longtime Habersham County banker and community leader, who died Sunday.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District, is soliciting public comment on a reversal of a change to the Lake Sidney Lanier Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) that was made in December of 2012 concerning community docks on the lake.

Less than two years ago, party leaders solemnly declared after an exhaustive study that the GOP "must embrace and champion comprehensive immigration reform." But as President Obama issued a sweeping immigration order last week, some of the Republican Party's most prominent governors described immigration reform as little more than an afterthought.

A nor'easter was expected to develop along the East Coast just as millions of travelers head to their Thanksgiving destinations, bringing mostly rain close to the coast, but heavier snow further inland. The exact track and severity of the storm had meteorologists on alert.

Here are some of the highlights from the testimony given to a St. Louis County Grand Jury, which did not indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in the death of an unarmed black teenager. The information was released Monday night by the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

The National Weather Service issued several tornado warnings as severe storms crossed Georgia early Sunday evening.

Brenau University has officially launched its new trademarked Golden Tigers athletics logo and graphic identity system that features the tiger mascot in profile roaring out of a bold initial B as well as the university

In a move likely to further inflame tensions with Israel's Arab citizens, the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday approved a bill to legally define the country as the nation-state of the Jewish people.