Ken Stanford

Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear "with no skin showing," a top federal health official said Sunday, and the Pentagon announced it was forming a team to assist medical staff in the U.S., if needed.

Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in U.S. Social Security benefits after being forced out of the United States, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Gov. Nathan Deal questioned whether Democrat Jason Carter's leadership and faulted his legislative record, while Carter attacked the incumbent over a high unemployment rate and accused him of an ethics scandal.

The Hall County Board of Commissioners is to hold a public hearing Thursday on the proposed abandonment of a section of Tumbling Creek Circle. A second hearing is planned Nov. 13.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded an Atlanta group a grant to fight housing discrimination, focusing on areas near Hall and three other northeast Georgia counties

The Georgia Lottery Corp. reports record profits for education for the first quarter of fiscal year 2015.

The Ebola crisis in the U.S. took another alarming turn Wednesday with word that a second Dallas nurse caught the disease from a patient and flew across the Midwest aboard an airliner the day before she fell ill. President Barack Obama canceled a campaign trip to address the outbreak.

Next year HBO is cutting the cord and selling its popular streaming video service HBO Go as a stand-alone product, as more Americans choose to watch the Web, not the TV.

As Shakespeare wrote, "All the world's a stage," and a new partnership gives University of North Georgia (UNG) students and faculty the opportunity to work with two Shakespearean theater companies and possibly become players on a period-inspired stage in Atlanta.

Violinist Dr. Rachael Fischer will present a concert of classical music at 4 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 26, in the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music in Demorest.