Ken Stanford

Four gay couples announced Wednesday they are suing Montana over its constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making North Dakota and South Dakota the only two states with similar bans and no lawsuits seeking to overturn them.

A former Justice Department official who helped craft the Obama administration's legal rationale for using drones to kill suspected American terrorists abroad won preliminary Senate approval Wednesday to become a federal appeals court judge.

The Federal Reserve has begun to discuss the tools it could use to finally pull back the extraordinary stimulus it's provided the U.S. economy since 2008. But Fed officials plan further discussions and have set no timetable for any increase in interest rates.

Georgia's Republican Senate primary runoff July 22 pits a multimillionaire businessman who's never held public office against a congressman who's spent more than two decades on Capitol Hill.

Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the U.S. as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and economic forces.

Seeking to head off a growing furor over veterans' health care, President Barack Obama declared Wednesday that allegations of misconduct at VA hospitals are "dishonorable" and will be not be tolerated by his administration.

Heather Feldman of Flowery Branch was recently selected by her peers from the 12 Regional Commissions in Georgia to chair the Economic Development Professionals Group for the GARC (Georgia Association of Regional Commissions).

Helen is one of several places in Georgia approved recently for state financing of water and wastewater infrastructure improvements.