Ken Stanford

As it warns Russia to step back from Ukraine or suffer another financial hit, the U.S. is simultaneously trying to coax along a reluctant Europe, which is trying to balance its desire to punish Moscow against its fear of economic turmoil from the effects of a new, harsher round of Western trade sanctions.

In an unsparing critique of Republicans, President Barack Obama on Friday accused the GOP of using voting restrictions to keep voters from the polls and of jeopardizing 50 years of expanded ballot box access for millions of black Americans and other minorities.

Technology stocks are dropped for a second day in a row as investors flee highflying Internet and biotechnology companies.

The University of North Georgia (UNG) will host the April meeting of the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia, which will take place next week, April 15-16, on UNG's Dahlonega Campus.

An Athens middle school teacher facing drug charges says he was growing marijuana in his home for medicinal purposes.

Since the state instituted online voter registration March 31, twenty people have used the new service to sign up to vote in Hall County.

First-quarter profit for Wells Fargo & Co., the biggest U.S. mortgage lender, surged 14 percent in the latest quarter as the bank continued to trim its losses on soured loans.

It's the silent enemy in our retirement accounts: High fees. And now a new study finds that the typical 401(k) fees - adding up to a modest-sounding 1 percent a year - would erase $70,000 from an average worker's account over a four-decade career compared with lower-cost options.