B.J. Williams

The Northeast Georgia Council, Boy Scouts of America have honored a hospital administrator, a former political leader and an educator as part of an annual Gainesville event.

Kurt Busch was cleared Wednesday to get back in his race car and attempt to rebuild a career that was halted two days before the Daytona 500 when NASCAR suspended him for allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend.

Human remains washed ashore in heavy fog Wednesday after seven Marines and four soldiers were believed to be killed in an Army helicopter crash during a night-time training mission off a Florida beach.

A father and son from Gainesville have been sentenced to prison following their conviction on racketeering charges.

After a vote of approval Monday night by city council members, construction will get underway soon on a new funeral home and cemetery near downtown Braselton.

Authorities have identified a man shot and killed by a police officer outside a metro Atlanta apartment complex as 27-year-old Anthony Hill.

A medical devices manufacturer plans to add 100 jobs to its Georgia operations.

More than 40 million Americans are in debt thanks to their education, and most of their loans come from Uncle Sam. So President Barack Obama is aiming to clamp down on the private companies that service federal student debt with a presidential memorandum he signed Tuesday.

On Monday lawyers for a Georgia death row inmate whose execution was postponed because of a problem with the lethal injection drug called for a transparent and meaningful investigation into the issue.

Hall County officials say they are about half-way through their clean-up effort after icy and snowy weather hit the county last month.