B.J. Williams

A Georgia special education teacher is accused of cruelty to children after police say she held an autistic boy upside-down by his legs and lowered him head-first into a trash can.

Two candidates have qualified to run for the Lula City Council seat left vacant earlier this year by the death of councilwoman and mayor pro-tem Vicky Chambers.

The Hall County Board of Commissioners will meet on Monday, May 11 for a scheduled work session, but the meeting time has been changed from 3 p.m. to 10 a.m.

Authorities have released the name of a man whose body was found in rural Hall County earlier this week, but they still don't know exactly how he died.

Two University of North Georgia students were recently honored by the UNG Department of Public Safety for saving a man's life during an event on the Dahlonega campus.

The brush fires that were burning along an estimated six-mile stretch of I-85 southbound have now been extinguished and the road is reopened.

Transport Topics, a national newspaper covering trucking and freight transportation, has named Syfan Logistics as one of the Top 50 Transportation Brokerage Firms and Top 50 Dedicated Contract Carriers in the United States for 2015.

Ride-hailing services such as Uber and Lyft, which connect riders with drivers by means of a smartphone app, will soon have to comply with some Georgia regulations under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Nathan Deal.

Spherion Staffing Services announced Wednesday that Al Gainey and Stacey Reece, owners of offices in Gainesville, Buford and Eastanollee, are recipients of the 2015 Spherion Spirit Award.

A Jackson County family lost everything in a house fire Tuesday afternoon, according to EMS Director Steve Nichols.