Ken Stanford

Major U.S. stock indexes got off to an uneven start in early trading Friday, a day after stocks clocked their worst day of the year.

The House Study Committee on the Role of the Federal Government in Education will hold its next meeting on Tuesday, October 21, at 10:00 a.m. in the Continuing Educatiion Building on the University of North Georgia, Gainesville Campus.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) continues its role as the spearhead for the NCAA Division II Make-A-Wish initiative, raising the most money of all Division II schools during 2013-14.

Nissan is recalling more than 220,000 Altima midsize cars in the U.S. because a secondary latch can fail and allow the hoods to fly open while the cars are in motion.

Global stock markets sank Friday after Wall Street suffered its worst day of the year and worries grew that a decline in German growth could push Europe toward another recession.

The man accused of last weekend's murder of a cellmate at the Hall County Detention Center has been indicted by a Hall County Grand Jury.

Two years after a prostitution scandal rocked the Secret Service, a Republican congressman renewed allegations Thursday about possible involvement by a White House volunteer and said he smelled efforts to cover it up. White House officials adamantly denied wrongdoing and said there'd been no attempt to keep anything quiet.

A federal judge likened Texas' strict voter ID requirement to a poll tax deliberately meant to suppress minority voter turnout and struck it down less than a month before Election Day - and mere hours after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked a similar measure in Wisconsin.

The Gores Group, a leading Los Angeles‐based investment firm, is selling Scovill Fasteners to Morito, a global supplier of apparel fasteners, components for automobiles and cameras and other niche manufactured products.

More Georgia students are taking and passing Advanced Placement (AP) exams in Georgia and the state is outpacing the nation in growth in both participation rates and passing rates, according to data just released on the May 2014 administration of those exams.