Woodstock will get $2 million in federal help to buy and demolish about 100 apartments along Noonday Creek that were severely flooded in September 2009.
The Gwinnett County school board on Thursday unanimously approved a new policy to give its police the authority to use force when necessary to keep campuses safe and students from misbehaving.
Poet Maya Angelou, civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga. and Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell are among the 2010 winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.