B.J. Williams

With a rising number of "copycat" threats targeting school systems, Hall County School officials are working to put a stop to such behavior.

More people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week. But the overall level stayed low enough to suggest the job market is strengthening.

Gwinnett County homicide detectives have identified the murder victim found at a home on Powers Avenue in Buford yesterday as 54-year-old Vickie Bowles.

The Board of Trustees for Piedmont College in Demorest is looking for a new president after terminating the contract of Dr. Danny Hollingsworth Tuesday.

Voters in the south Hall city of Flowery Branch will have to go back to the polls again next month.

Voters are heading to poll sites across Georgia with much on the line for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who is looking to regain momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

A Baldwin home was about 50 percent destroyed by fire Monday afternoon, closing Park Avenue.

Dawson County authorities are warning residents to be on the lookout for suspicious persons in the county who are running a paving scam.

Hall County Commissioners Monday morning talked transportation, okaying money to replace some old buses and setting a public hearing date to discuss the future of the Hall Area Transit System.

The Georgia Senate is expected to take up legislation Monday that would ban illegal immigrant students from state colleges and universities.