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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

SPARTA, Ga. — Sparta landowners received another blow in their fight against the controversial Hanson Spur railway project after a Fulton County judge found that the railroad could legally seize ...

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 ...

*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 ...

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