Many of the Hancock County community’s residents are elderly landowners living on land passed down since the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.

The city of Sparta, Georgia, and its police department are coming together to honor a dispatcher who was killed in a hit-and-run crash in Jacksonville. A candlelight vigil is being held for Mary Jones ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SPARTA, Ga. — In 1850, Andrew Benjamin Tarbutton enslaved 25 people in central Georgia. A year later, he purchased more than a ...

Rodricas Jacks, 39, from Sparta, pleaded guilty to possessing guns and drugs on probation, and was aiming to distribute fentanyl.

SPARTA, Ga. — Mary Jones devoted her life to helping people as a police dispatcher. The city of Sparta is reeling after she was killed in a hit and run in Florida. Sparta police chief Tommy Walker Jr.

MACON, Ga. (WRBL) — A convicted Georgia felon pleaded guilty to the possession of three firearms including a machine gun and ...

ATLANTA — A hearing on Tuesday raised questions about a railroad company’s use of eminent domain in one of Georgia’s poorest areas. After three days of hearings in November, an officer for the Georgia ...

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