The Labor Department is accusing a subsidiary of a poultry giant with a huge processing plant in Cumming of gender discrimination in its hiring practices at an Illinois plant.
Tennessee Valley Authority residential customers - including thousands in the northeast Georgia mountains - will pay up to $8.50 more each month for electricity starting in October.
Gus Bell, III, Chairman of Hussey, Gay, Bell & DeYoung (HGBD), announced Wednesday that former State Sen. Eric Johnson has returned to the firm as President of HGBD International, Inc.
The Hall County Board of Education voted Monday night to use $260,000 of the Federal Jobs Bill funds to increase instructional supply allotments to all schools by $10 per student.
Retail sales rose in August by the largest amount in five months, suggesting a late spring economic swoon was temporary and not the start of another recession.
The new chairman of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers says Americans can expect to see the high unemployment rate continue for some time.
