A five-year-old girl drowned in her Cumming pool Tuesday night. The girl's baby sitter was watching the girl swim in a pool in the Abington subdivision around 8 p.m. Tuesday when she went inside, Fors...

Two political newcomers are being sworn in today as members of the all-Republican and soon to be all-male Forsyth County Commission. Patrick Bell and Jim Boff take their oaths of office at 4 p.m. in t...

Forsyth County's planning director told the county commission Tuesday that major staff cuts planned for his department could mean a reduction in work quality. "We are in the business of providing a se...

A Gainesville man was killed Thursday night in a single-vehicle wreck in Forsyth County, authorities said. Joshua Tyler Jay, 21, was northbound on Bethel Road near Lake Hollow Drive around 9 p.m. when...

Forsyth County Manager Rhonda Poston-O'Connor will be back in the hot seat and -- possibly out of a job -- Thursday. Poston-O'Connor's job status is back on the agenda for Thursday's 5 p.m. commission...

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Some 65 years after their service, a group of former civilian women pilots whose unheralded work was key to helping the U.S. effort in World War II were honored Wednesday with the Congressional Gold M...

Flying in and out of New York -- which is usually no picnic -- is likely to get worse this spring and summer. A new nationwide rule on tarmac delays, possible exemptions to that rule and a runway clos...

Simmering tension between the White House and U.S. Supreme Court spilled into public this week when Chief Justice John Roberts labeled the political atmosphere at this year's State of the Union addres...

Colleen LaRose, the Pennsylvania woman indicted for allegedly conspiring to support terrorists and kill a person in a foreign country, attempted to commit suicide in 2005, according to a police report...

New York state's top police official announced Wednesday he was quitting, the second acting superintendent to step down in as many weeks.

A 23-year-old American activist stands in front of an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza. The bulldozer drives over her, crushing her to death.

Forbes magazine released its annual list of the world's richest people Wednesday, and for only the second time since 1995, Microsoft founder Bill Gates' name was not at the top.

The United States will hold both Israel and the Palestinians responsible for any steps that make peace between them more difficult, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday.

The Pennsylvania woman who dubbed herself Jihad Jane is an American who lived literally on Main Street in an apartment where she spent much time online, posting messages saying she was "desperate to d...

Myanmar's ruling junta has announced a new election law that disqualifies pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from participating in upcoming national elections.