B.J. Williams

Sunday at 2:00 a.m. marks the official return to standard time for most Americans.

The Hall County Board of Commissioners will hold their first county commission meeting at the new government center on Browns Bridge Road at 6 p.m. on Nov. 8.

A Gainesville mother has been convicted in the death of her toddler daughter. Hall County District Attorney Lee Darragh confirmed the guilty verdict handed down Friday by a Hall County Superior Court jury.

For the fifth year in a row, avid readers kept their books open and their reading glasses on for 24 hours straight, all to raise awareness for the need for increased adult literacy in Hall County.

People in the coastal corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps Wednesday to reclaim routines upended by the disaster, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods strewn with debris and scarred by floods and fire.

The Georgia Trust has issued its "Places in Peril" list for 2013, and one of the sites is in northeast Georgia.

Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm Sandy steamed inland, still delivering punishing wind and rain. The U.S. death toll was at least 35 as of early Tuesday afternoon, many of the victims killed by falling trees.

City water officials have issued alerts for water customers on Golden Parkway and Friendship Road, saying that water service will be interrupted this week.

Citizen-soldiers from the Georgia National Guard are being called up to help with relief efforts in states affected by superstorm Sandy.

Authorities in Jackson County said all lanes of Interstate 85 northbound near the Jefferson exit re-opened to traffic around 3:45 p.m.