Sparks News

Briand Williams died in combat when insurgents attacked his unit. He joined the army immediately after his Cook County High Graduation in 2002.

Temp: 53.0 F Wind Chill: 52 F Augusta, Bush Field, GA Font Size: November 24, 2009 A soldier from Sparks, Georgia was killed November 22, 2009 wile supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Law enforcement officials said around 4:20 a northbound semi slammed into the back of a tractor trailer that had slowed in right lane near exit 42.

It's the second time it's happened to this family in less than a year. The latest fire happened at a mobile home in Sparks where three generations of the family lived together.

An anonymous call led officers to a man who allegedly was seen stealing doors from an abandoned house Tuesday night.

Two Cook County residents have been taken into custody and charged with drug-related crimes.

Sheriff officials say 30-year-old Robert Keith McCormick was cleaning the floors while on work detail when he slipped through a side door around midnight.

A long-awaited improvements project is now poised to get under way in downtown Oakwood.

The Dredge Texas, owned and operated by Great Lakes Dredging and Dock Co., is off-loaded from the company\u2019s semi-submersible vessel last Friday in St.

THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPARKS...OR NEAR ADEL...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPARKS BY 650 PM EDT... ADEL BY 700 PM EDT... 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE BY 715 PM EDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT 9 4 2 8 8 3 3.

THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SPARKS...OR NEAR ADEL...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SPARKS BY 650 PM EDT... ADEL BY 700 PM EDT... 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF NASHVILLE BY 715 PM EDT... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... RELAY REPORTS OF SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN TALLAHASSEE AT 9 4 2 8 8 3 3.

In the past month, the South Georgia Drug Task Force has arrested two Cook County men on drug charges.

Air Force Lt. Col. Scott Brady has been selected for promotion to the rank of colonel in the U.S. Air Force.

Joan Bailey, incoming president of the Partnership Cancer Fund, goes over plans for the upcoming fund-raising campaign during the fund's bi-monthly meeting held at the Pearlman Comprehensive Cancer Center at South Georgia Medical Center Thursday.

On the evening of May 8th, nightclub owner James Statum was stabbed 60 times with an ice pick and robbed.

Two people arrested for an armed robbery in Adel have now been charged with the Friday night murder of James "Buster" Statum, a Sparks game room owner.

Authorities continue to investigate the alleged homicide of a 72-year-old Sparks game room owner that occurred May 8. Contrary to earlier reports, no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.

A man and a woman picked up by Tifton Police officers Saturday in response to a "Be On the Lookout" listing them as suspects in an armed robbery and a murder in Cook County have not been charged in the murder, but a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent said Tuesday that the GBI is looking to see if the two crimes are connected.

A man and a woman were arrested in Tifton early Saturday morning and charged with the murder of a 72-year-old Sparks game room owner.

A 72-year-old Sparks man who owned a game room was found dead by family members summoned to the business Friday night.