B.J. Williams

A Malaysia Airlines passenger plane carrying 295 people was shot down over eastern Ukraine on Thursday, Ukrainian officials said, and both the government and the pro-Russia separatists fighting in the region denied any responsibility for downing the aircraft.

A Gainesville man has been jailed after Hall County drug agents found more than 80 marijuana plants growing in his backyard vegetable gardens.

Less than a week after demolition began on a shopping center on Brown's Bridge Road in Gainesville, bulldozers started tearing down another shopping center on Thompson Bridge Road.

Microsoft is cutting up to 18,000 jobs, about 14 percent of its staff, over the next year as it works on integrating the Nokia devices business it bought in April and cut down on management layers.

Georgia Lottery Corp. officials say a record $940 million in revenue has been transferred to the Georgia Lottery for Education Account.

The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday morning that Georgia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for June was 7.4 percent, up two-tenths of a percentage point from 7.2 percent in May.

After 16 hours stuck at sea, passengers stranded on a casino boat that ran aground off Georgia's coast were ferried to shore Wednesday aboard two Coast Guard cutters.

After more than 12 hours, passengers stranded on a casino boat that ran aground off Georgia's coast were ferried to shore Wednesday aboard two Coast Guard cutters.

Officials in northeast Georgia say Athens-Ben Epps Airport is losing the $1.6 million in federal funding that supports passenger air service by Oregon-based SeaPort Airlines.

Economic development was the theme of Tuesday evening's Gainesville City Council meeting, with council members giving their final stamp of approval to a new assisted living facility, a new subdivision and a new road for the city.