B.J. Williams

Months of planning and preparation for The Salvation Army in Gainesville culminated Saturday with the agency's annual Christmas distribution.

In the latest HealthGrades scores issued for hospitals across the state of Georgia, Northeast Georgia Medical Center in Gainesville has scored in the top position in several categories.

Hall County has reported its 16th case of rabies for the year, and as in the past couple of weeks, this incident involved a human coming in contact with a rabid animal.

Emergency crews were called to the Regions Bank Building at the corner of Jesse Jewell and E.E. Butler parkways in downtown Gainesville this morning.

The Lumpkin County School system has done something no other school system in the state has done...the system has trained 100% of its staff to recognize child sexual abuse cases.

A gunman killed a police officer in a Virginia Tech parking lot Thursday and then apparently shot himself to death nearby in a baffling attack that shook up the campus nearly five years after it was the scene of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

A 20-year-old maintenance worker from Canton is being held without bond on charges stemming from the beating death of 7-year-old Jorelys Rivera, who disappeared from her apartment complex last week.

Hall County authorities confiscated almost $269,000 worth of methamphetamine in a drug bust near the Gainesville Square Monday.

Authorities say autopsy results show that a missing Georgia girl whose body was found in a trash container was beaten, stabbed and sexually assaulted.

No one was hurt, but two people were arrested after an off-duty Hall County jailer became embroiled in a domestic altercation with a female friend early Saturday morning.