Bryan Pirkle

The man who was fatally stabbed during a confrontation after a Dodgers-Giants game in San Francisco was the son of a Dodgers security guard, the team said Thursday.

Federal researchers have been working on a system to measure and predict the destructiveness of wildfires similar to the way officials use the magnitude scale for earthquakes and other tools to rate and evaluate tornadoes and hurricanes.

The Georgia Public Service Commission is holding a hearing next week on a proposed Georgia Power Rate Increase.

Tea party conservative Sen. Ted Cruz delivered an old-style filibuster over President Barack Obama's health care law on Tuesday, even though fellow Republicans urged him to back down for fear of a possible government shutdown in a week.

A member of the House Homeland Security Committee says the al-Qaida affiliated group behind the deadly attack on an upscale shopping mall in Kenya recruited up to 50 people from Somali American communities in the U.S.

A partnership between the Marcus Autism Center and the Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning aims to train a small group of state and contract employees to work with day care operators and pre-K providers throughout Georgia to identify the early warning signs of autism and support parents.

This year will be the 10th anniversary of Downtown Gainesville's Annual Juried Art In The Square.

The U.S. gay-rights movement has achieved many victories in recent years on marriage, military service and other fronts. Yet one vestige of an earlier, more wary era remains firmly in place: the 30-year-old nationwide ban on blood donations by gay and bisexual men.

On the fifth anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, President Barack Obama says the Republican focus on budget tightening could widen income disparities in the nation even as the economy climbs out of a debilitating recession.

Five songwriters with more than 30 hit songs headline the 12th annual John Jarrard Foundation Concert Songwriters in the Round Show Sept. 20-21.