Bryan Pirkle

The House Armed Services Committee will investigate the Obama administration's swap of an American prisoner held for five years for five Taliban leaders that caused a political firestorm over the lack of congressional notification and fears the high-level Taliban could return to the Afghanistan battlefield.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's decision on seeking the White House again could stretch into 2015, and she's making no commitments about testifying before a select congressional committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.

Public input meetings begin Tuesday in Hall County on what project categories should be included in the next countywide proposed Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST VII). Officials with Hall County and the cities of Gainesville, Oakwood, Flowery Branch, Lula, Clermont, Gillsville, Buford and Braselton will host the meetings, which will be held at various venues across the county.

What do you know about life jacket safety, the 100-foot law, minimum age limits for boat operators, boating under the influence? These are just a few examples of things you should know before operating a vessel on public waters, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources

Crews are ready to begin construction of the Mason Street Parking Facility located near the Forsyth County Administration Building in Cumming.

General Motors is recalling more than 89,000 autos because of air bag defects and other problems.

A suspect is in custody following a tense SWAT standoff in Gwinnett County Friday evening.

Eighteen months ago, former investment adviser Aubrey Lee Price was declared dead. On Thursday, Price very much alive stood before a judge and pleaded guilty in a fraud scheme that fueled a rural bank's collapse and cost his investors tens of millions of dollars.

President Barack Obama said Thursday he ``absolutely makes no apologies'' for seeking the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in a prisoner swap with the Taliban, vigorously defending an exchange that has caused a furor in the United States and has dogged the president on his European trip this week.

A former soldier facing the death penalty for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter has apologized and is asking jurors to let him live.