B.J. Williams

The Georgia Mountain Players ended a 21-year August tradition Sunday afternoon, performing "Smoke on the Mountain" one final time at the old Georgia Mountains Center Theatre in downtown Gainesville.

It was a wash-out on the Fourth of July, but Hall County government officials are hoping the weather will cooperate on Labor Day for the annual fireworks extravaganza at Laurel Park.

The Fort Hood shooter, an Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in the November 2009 attack, faces the death penalty as the sentencing phase of his trial begins Monday.

Officials say fire crews made progress overnight against a large wildfire threatening San Francisco's water supply, several towns near Yosemite National Park and historic giant sequoias.

The Georgia Supreme Court has agreed to hear the state's appeal of a lower court judge's order that halted the execution of a death row inmate last month.

Another rabies case was confirmed late last week in south Hall County.

A suburban Atlanta woman convicted of lying under oath and lying to police investigating the killing of her husband is serving her sentence at a women's prison in northeast Georgia.

Winder police say burglars drove a truck through a pawn shop window and stole more than 20 guns Sunday.

Several years have passed since Hall County last conducted a comprehensive review of all of the county's lakefront properties, and the Hall County Tax Assessors Office says it is past time to get a better picture of the value of those properties.

A Georgia city is backing off its ordinance requiring gun ownership.