Metro Gainesville added 600 new jobs from March to April, bringing to 1,000 the number added over the past two months and to 71,000 the number in the area.
Three of the five valedictorians at North Georgia College & State University this spring are from Gainesville - and a Gainesville woman graduated with her second set of dual degrees.
Four people were arrested early Wednesday by Gainesville police on drug charges after an incident that began with a report of shots fired at the McDonald's on Jewell Parkway.