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Hundreds of people have gotten sick from eating eggs contaminated with salmonella. Initially, 228 million eggs were recalled last week by the company, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa. Now that number has jumped to about 380 million eggs.

Starting at noon, local and national companies will be at the Gwinnett Center taking resumes and interviewing for two thousand positions. This is one of the biggest job fairs in the state of Georgia.

The first day of school can be an exciting, stressful and chaotic. Making check lists helps alleviate stress by helping to make you and your students are prepared. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends you taking these steps before the first day of school. Click here to find out what they are.

Bullies are more common in schools than expected. Whether your child is being bullied or bullying, parents should deal with the problem immediately. Click here for some tips on how to deal with bullying.

Summer is ending for more students around Georgia. Below are starting dates for school districts. Be sure to check with your school to be prepared for the first day.

Area schools are starting the new school year on different dates. Click here for a list of start dates and web site information to help you get ready.

Shirley Sherrod, who was forced to resign from her government job in Georgia based on incomplete and misleading reports of a speech she gave, has been offered a new job by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. But, she said Thursday she is “not so sure.”

Former Gov. Roy Barnes successfully completed the first step of his political redemption tour Tuesday, handily winning the Democratic nomination for his old job. Now Barnes can raise money and bide his time, waiting for Republican voters to decide in the Aug. 10 runoff whom he will face in November.

The wife of the white farmer allegedly discriminated against by the USDA’s rural development director for Georgia said Shirley Sherrod “kept us out of bankruptcy.” Eloise Spooner awoke Tuesday to discover that Sherrod had lost her job after videotaped comments she made at a local NAACP banquet surfaced on the web.

A black USDA official in Georgia has resigned after publicly admitting she didn’t help a white man trying to save his farm to the “full force” of her power and instead referred him to “one of his own.”

Voters will have their say Tuesday on who they want to be their next governor. Fourteen people want to replace Republican Sonny Perdue, who can’t seek another term because of term limits. Polls remain open until 7 pm. Be sure to take appropriate identification such as state or government issued ID.

Georgians can begin downloading a new discount prescription drug card which guarantees the lowest cost on prescriptions for the entire family. The Georgia Prescription Assistance Discount Drug Card Program was launched yesterday.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Arizona to challenge a new state law intended to combat illegal immigration, arguing that it would undermine the federal government’s pursuit of terrorists, gang members and other criminal immigrants.

Come fall, MARTA will be a changed system. In budget cuts the agency’s board approved unanimously Monday, 40 bus routes are going away and trains will add wait times up to five minutes more each. Click here to find out what other services MARTA’s board cut.

A culinary argument between a brother and sister about whether to use butter or margarine in macaroni and cheese turned violent, resulting in an attack with a knife-edged barbecue spatula, police say.