Ken Stanford

Republicans blocked a Senate bill Wednesday aimed at narrowing the pay gap between men and women, an election-year ritual that Democrats hope will help spur women to back them in this fall's congressional elections.

President Barack Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the nation's comforter five years ago, mourning at Fort Hood with families and uniformed comrades of those killed during last week's shooting spree. "We somehow bear what seems unbearable," he declared.

A student armed with a knife went on a stabbing and slashing spree at a high school near Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning, leaving as many as 20 people injured, including four students who suffered serious wounds, authorities said.

The Georgia Mountains On-the-Job Training Workforce Development Overview is coming to Cornelia and Toccoa.

The BelkGives on the Go Mobile Mammography Center, a 39-foot-long, state-of-the-art screening center on wheels, will stop soon at Belk stores in Canton, Cumming, Gainesville and McDonough to offer free, convenient mammogram screenings.

There hasn't been this much water in Lake Lanier in three-and-a-half months.

Bank of America says it's cutting about 3,000 jobs overseas as part of ongoing reviews of its global operations.

WomenSource is currently seeking female community heroes to honor and participate as models at its 7th Annual Power of the Purse Fashion Show & Fundraiser on Tuesday, September 9.

A Suwanee man has been arrested by Hall County sheriff's investigators following an undercover Internet operation.