The Times

Hall County firefighters responded Friday around 3:20 p.m. to a mobile home fire on the 3000 block of Wallace Road in East Hall. Fire crews found smoke billowing from all openings of a single-wide mobile home, though there were no visible flames. The resident wasn’t home at the time of...

Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson has long been a sports hero in Gainesville, and like many other such heroes, he has been honored with a street that bears his name. In Feb. 2017, the city renamed the 180-foot road that leads into the Gainesville High campus from Pearl Nix Parkway — Touchdown Way became Deshaun Watson Way.

Area residents may soon have a new place to grab chicken for the family and gas for your car. As neighbors on Thompson Bridge Road in Gainesville, Zaxby’s restaurant and Clipper convenience store are aiming to open around the same time — late July. The two will even...

Emotions ran high Friday, June 24, as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that had provided a constitutional right to abortion. “We’re just taking the day to praise God and celebrate this,” said Lee Koz, executive director of Choices Pregnancy Care Centers, a crisis pregnancy and anti-abortion center in Gainesville.

Lahius Leverette, a childhood friend and former Gainesville High teammate of Deshaun Watson, maintains the Cleveland Brown quarterback did nothing wrong. Watson recently settled 20 of the 24 civil lawsuits that had been filed by women who accused him of sexual assault and harassment. Leverette, who speaks or texts with...