B.J. Williams

The man accused of murder in the Friday shooting death of a Gainesville auto dealership employee will remain behind bars.

The union for longshoremen along the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico has agreed to extend its contract for 30 days

The two men who robbed the Sun Trust bank branch on Thompson Bridge road in Gainesville on Dec. 11 appear to be the same men who robbed a Tennessess bank the day after Christmas.

Firefighters from both Dawson and Forsyth counties spent about three hours Thursday morning battling a fire at a tire shop on Highway 53 at Blue Ridge Overlook.

An East Hall man will be arraigned on Jan. 8 on charges that he sexually assaulted four teenage girls at his home.

City officials say it's not a done deal, but there is the possibility Walmart will build a new store on Highway 29/129 in Jefferson.

The Afghan Interior Ministry said Tuesday a policewoman who killed an American contractor from Georgia in Kabul a day earlier was a native Iranian who came to Afghanistan and displayed "unstable behavior" but had no known links to militants.

An enormous storm system that dumped snow and sleet on the nation's midsection and unleashed damaging tornadoes around the Deep South began punching its way toward the Northeast on Wednesday, slowing holiday travel.