HANCOCK COUNTY, Ga. — Some drivers who committed minor traffic violations in Sparta, Georgia on Friday got a bit of holiday cheer instead of a ticket. Officers with the Sparta Police Department pulled ...

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 ...

SPARTA, Georgia — A Central Georgia police department is in mourning after a "beloved" police dispatcher was killed in Florida early Thursday morning, a press release from the department says. Sparta ...

SPARTA, Ga. — Five people, including two teenagers and a juvenile, were charged with felony murder of a fellow teenager, Sparta Chief of Police Tommie Walker Jr. said in a release. According to the ...

SPARTA, Georgia — A man is dead after an early Friday morning house fire in Sparta, according to Hancock County Deputy Coroner Dontrelle Andrews. The call came in just after 4:45 a.m. that a house was ...

Rural Hancock County, about 100 miles southeast of Atlanta, has the highest estimated rate of childhood food insecurity in the nation, according a report.