B.J. Williams

The Thursday afternoon rush around around downtown Gainesville will likely be more congested than usual, according to the Gainesville Police Department.

A 25-year-old Bethlehem man faces more than two dozen charges in connection with thefts at two churches, a Walmart store and a YMCA in Barrow County.

Coming up later this week, a road sign will be unveiled on Dawsonville Highway near the intersection of Beechwood Blvd. in memory of a fallen Gainesville police officer.

The Hall County School District has opened the application process for the High School Programs of Choice and Charter Schools for students who will be freshmen beginning the next school year.

Hundreds of small pink flags dot the back section of Gainesville's historic Alta Vista Cemetery, marking burial sites for African American citizens who wently largely unrecognized until a ceremony Sunday afternoon.

Any motorist who has ever tried to venture across the four lanes of traffic on McEver Road between the McEver Corners Shopping Center and the Village Shoppes of Gainesville knows it's risky business.

At least 152 Afghans sent to the United States for military training during the course of the war against the Taliban have gone AWOL, and the problem, which worsened last year, is unlikely to improve soon, U.S. inspectors said Friday.

Authorities have arrested a Forsyth County woman in connection with an apparent hit-and-run incident that killed a Dawson County man earlier this month.

An employee at the Habersham County Detention Center has been charged with smuggling illegal narcotics into the detention center for two inmates.

The Georgia State Patrol is opening up its headquarters building on Cleveland Highway in Gainesville on Monday, Oct. 23 for a special community event.