B.J. Williams

Severe thunderstorms that rumbled across the Southeast killed one person, knocked out power to thousands in Alabama and Georgia and spawned several possible tornadoes.

Students from the School of Education at North Georgia College and State University will not take a scheduled trip to Mexico... thanks to the swine flu.

With summer vacation just around the corner, Safe Kids Gainesville-Hall County decided now is the perfect time to teach students some safety basics.

Friends of the Braselton-West Jackson Library recently raised $7,000 in its second annual fundraiser.

White County officials have been told by Lumpkin County animal shelter officials they can no longer accept stray animals from their county.

Village Nursing Care recently graduated six students from its Certified Nursing Assistants training class.

Quick thinking employees at the King's Delight meat processing plant helped put the brakes on a fire at the business Tuesday afternoon.

A University of Georgia professor suspected of killing his wife and two other men outside a community theater has a plane ticket to fly to the Netherlands later this week and left behind an empty passport wallet, federal authorities said Monday.

Gainesville Human Resources Director Joan Sheffield has announced her retirement.

The world's governments raced to avoid both a pandemic and global hysteria Sunday as more possible swine flu cases surfaced from Canada to New Zealand and the United States declared a public health emergency. "It's not a time to panic," the White House said.