Ken Stanford

State health official are reporting that two more Georgia residents have been sickened by the salmonella outbreak that the Food and Drug Administration has linked to tainted tomatoes.

Five Hall County high schoolers, one Gainesville City high schooler and 12 from Gwinnett County Public Schools have been named Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholars this year.

Gas prices across Georgia were up slightly overnight.

The state Department of Labor says Georgia's unemployment rate jumped to 5.8 percent in May, the highest it's been for the month in 15 years.

Another Georgia municipality is considering adding a surcharge on speeding tickets.

Hall County Sheriff Steve Cronic has received the W. Lee Arrendale Award for Vocational Excellence from the Rotary Club of Gainesville.

For a quarter-century, drilling for oil and gas off nearly all the American coastline has been banned in part to protect tourism and to lessen the chances of beach-blackening spills.

The Georgia Police and Fire Games are back in Gainesville this week.

Democratic leaders in the Georgia House of Representatives on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into problems with state tests that led to high failure rates among Georgia students.

The funeral will be Wednesday for Charles Pharr a photographer whose work no doubt adorns the walls of hundreds of homes in and around Gainesville.