Ken Stanford

A civil rights group is trying to block the state's public defender system from closing a 21-member office at the end of the month, which it says could leave as many as 1,800 defendants in the lurch.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported in Wednesday's editions that a 2008 report by Georgia's Mental Health Service Delivery Commission lifted text from other sources.

Large sections of a report on mental health care released recently by a George commission were lifted, sometimes verbatim, from a study in Michigan and two other sources, according to a report in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

All seven high schools in Hall County are expected to make Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) this year - and the graduation rate is up 7 percent.

Just in time for the summer vacation season, the visitor center at one of the most scenic spots in the northeast Georgia mountains is reopening.

It's another sign that drought conditions are not getting any better... at least where Lake Lanier is concerned.

It's no surprise how Georgia students performed on state-mandated exams this year.

Under pressure to fight child sex abuse, the Southern Baptist Convention's executive committee said Tuesday that the denomination should not create its own database to help churches identity predators or establish an office to field abuse claims.

There has been yet another case of rabies confirmed in Hall County... the 24th this year.

The program has been set for this year's Gainesville Symphony Orchestra (GSO) Patriotic Pops Concert which will be held on July 3.