B.J. Williams

A report issued Thursday by the Georgia Secretary of State's Office apparently found that the Hall County Elections Office did not properly execute last July's primary election and is guilty of 14 separate violations of the state election code.

Hearing impaired inmates at the Hall County Detention Center are now able to communicate better with family visitors thanks to some new federally-funded technology.

The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead and his brother on the loose, authorities said Friday as thousands of officers swarmed the streets in a manhunt that all but paralyzed the Boston area.

Two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing identified to The Associated Press apparently are from the Russian region near Chechnya

The Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council will suspend certification for a police officer accused of pulling a gun on a customer in a McDonalds drive-thru.

In its first award announcement of 2013, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission Thursday named 22 people as recipients of the Carnegie Medal, including a Gainesville man who saved someone from a burning house.

In just a little more than a year, Gainesville will have a new place to enjoy concerts, weddings and woodland walks in the city.

It was just over a year ago that a Gainesville businessman was shot and killed outside of the Victory Foods poultry plant in Gainesville.

It took nearly three hours to contain a gas leak on Highway 124 in Barrow County near the Jackson County line Thursday morning.

Rescue workers searched rubble that witnesses compared to a war zone early Thursday for survivors of a fertilizer plant explosion in a small Texas town that killed as many as 15 people and injured more than 160 others. The blast left the factory a smoldering ruin and leveled homes and businesses for blocks in every direction.