Ken Stanford

Consumer spending, after adjusting for inflation, fell in June as shoppers were hit with the biggest increase in prices in nearly three decades.

Two men rammed a truck into a clutch of jogging policemen and tossed explosives, killing 16 officers Monday, state media said, in an attack in a restive province of western China just days before the Beijing Olympics, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.

Alaska is young. Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia have growing populations and many black voters. Montana has seen recent Democratic inroads, and North Dakota has sent only Democrats to Congress since 1986. Indiana borders Barack Obama's home state. And, Obama is hoping to snare a large percentage of the vote in each of them this fall.

Public school systems in the Gainesville area are opening the new school year this month with at least 10 new schools and 128 classroom additions to existing schools awaiting students and teachers.

Here's a quick glance at back-to-school plans at schools in the Gainesville area this year:

While the number of tuberculosis cases appears on the rise in Gwinnett County, the same is not true in Hall County.

Georgia Highway 316 is unlikely to become a toll road despite renewed talks of tolls as a solution to Georgia's transportation funding woes.

Eric Johnson said Friday he will step aside as president pro tem of the Georgia Senate, with an eye toward a running for lieutenant governor.

Chris Strickland, state Rep. James Mills' Democratic opponent in the November General Election, is disputing what he calls the "gold solution" to the Georgia budget shortfall advocated by Mills, a Chestnut Mountain Republican.

Jefferson City Schools opened for the new year Friday with 21 new classrooms at the middle school.