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 Police Chief Walker says a social media reminder about event permits was not meant to cancel homecoming celebrations ...

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. — A controversial railroad that would cut through a historically Black neighborhood of Sparta was given another green light from the Georgia Public Service Commission on Thursday. The ...

*Since the abolishment of Jim Crow laws, individual states and cities have come up with new and more subversive tactics in attempts to suppress the black vote. Last week, a U.S. appeals court struck ...

Eight inmates and two deputies were injured when the driver of their transport van dozed off and hit a utility pole, Georgia troopers say. The crash occurred at about 6:40 a.m. Friday, July 11, along ...

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 ...