Ken Stanford

Jenna Colvin has joined the University of North Georgia (UNG) as university counsel. Her appointment was effective September 1.

Georgia Democratic Senate hopeful Michelle Nunn has hit back against Republican David Perdue's charge that she and former President George H.W. Bush's foundation financially supported terrorism.

U.S. stocks closed out a turbulent week with a solid gain.

A man fired from an Oklahoma food processing plant beheaded a woman with a knife and was attacking another worker when he was shot and wounded by a company official, police said Friday.

American warplanes and drones hit Islamic State group tanks, Humvees, checkpoints and bunkers in airstrikes Friday targeting the extremists in Syria and Iraq, as the U.S.-led coalition expanded to include Britain, Denmark and Belgium.

Brenau University President Ed Schrader Friday called on U.S. higher education

A measure of U.S. consumer confidence reached its highest level since July 2013, led by greater optimism that the economy will grow and incomes will rise.