Ken Stanford

Eli Wallach, the raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays over a remarkable and enduring career and earned film immortality as a conniving, quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," has died. He was 98.

The Suwanee City Council Tuesday night approved a $13.6 million fiscal year 2015 budget.

Cornelia once again has been designated as an accredited National Main Street Program.

Working in school buildings and one-room churches, a team of nursing faculty and students from the University of North Georgia (UNG) faced challenging conditions to provide healthcare services to impoverished sugarcane workers and their families in the Dominican Republic in May.

The U.S. economy shrank at a steep annual rate of 2.9 percent in the January-March quarter as a harsh winter contributed to the biggest contraction since the depths of the recession five years ago. But the setback is widely thought to be temporary, with growth rebounding solidly since spring.

On Russian President Vladimir Putin's demand, the upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday canceled a resolution allowing the use of military in Ukraine, a move intended to show Moscow's eagerness to de-escalate tensions and avoid a new round of Western sanctions.