Sparta News

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: The Oconee Regional Chapter of Project Linus meets in the Education Center of Park Tower at Oconee Regional Medical Center.

One ability Jimmie Chatman has is dependability. The head custodian for the City of Thomson has been taking care of city buildings and grounds for the past 27 years.

People in one of Central Georgia's most economically challenged counties plan to march for change.

Greater Newton Grove Missionary Baptist Church Installation Services for the Rev.

Three tornadoes touched down in Hancock County late Friday, destroying at least eight homes and seriously injuring one resident, authorities said.

The National Weather Service says it has confirmed eight tornadoes from the severe storms that swept across Georgia on Good Friday.

9 a.m. to 2 p.m.: The Oconee Regional Chapter of Project Linus meets in the Education Center of Park Tower at Oconee Regional Medical Center.

The 14th annual WMGZ-97 Boat, RV and Personal Watercraft Show will be held all day in the Milledgeville Mall parking lot.

Friday afternoon traffic was backed up on Highway 441 after a two-car wreck occurred near the intersection of Old Montgomeryville Road near the Flash Foods gas station around 4:15 p.m. Several Milledgeville Police officers, two Georgia State Patrol Troopers, EMS and the Milledgeville Fire Department were on the scene to assist with the accident, ...

One congregation says they won't let storm damage keep them down. The tornado that ripped through Central Georgia two weeks ago, destroyed the Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church, in Sparta, erasing 143 ...

Saturday, March 7 A Multiple Sclerosis Fundraiser & Car Show will be held at the old Food Lion parking lot behind Zaxby's in Gray.

Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, using the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, will host Ash Wednesday holy communion and Imposition of the Ashes, at 7 p.m. tonight at the church located on U.S. 41 between Russell ...

Saturday, Feb. 28 A pancake breakfast with sausage or bacon, juice and coffee will be held as a Relay for Life Fundraiser at Applebee's. Tickets are available for $6 and must be purchased in advance at the ...

Anyone who lost food supplies obtained with Georgia food stamps as a result of severe weather on February 19 can get replacement provisions by visiting their local Georgia Department of Human Resources Division ...

Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church, a 144-year-old congregation in rural Hancock County near Sparta, had only recently dedicated a $150,000 addition when a storm came along Wednesday and destroyed ...

With his fingertips Ernest Bowen touched his brow to show where two .22-caliber bullets pierced his son's forehead, one over the nose, one over an eye.

A Hancock County man died late Wednesday when a possible tornado threw him from his mobile home in the Hickory Grove community at about 10:40 p.m. Several homes and a church were destroyed near Sparta and at ...

Five tornadoes walloped the midstate late Wednesday, one of which killed a Hancock County man and seriously injured his daughter and grandson, authorities said.

A Hancock County resident has died following Wednesday night's severe storms that touched down in Georgia.

A powerful and deadly tornado hit Hancock County killing a county worker and injuring his family, leaving more than a dozen other families homeless.