Hancock County News

Dec. 5, 5:30 p.m.: The tour will begin at Watson-Luckey House, 454 E. Hill St. Chauferred transportation provided with last tour leaving at 6:15 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door and are available at Peacock Hill, Luckey Printing and the Chamber office.

A grassroots tax rebellion has flared in Georgia's poorest county, a place so impoverished that 80 percent of its public school students are eligible for a free-lunch program.

In recent weeks, the Macon police made the Macon City Council take notice about the officers wanting to join a union for better pay and benefits.

Join us for a live Eyewitness News Webcast at 6: -A failed bank in Sparta reopened its doors today.

The Exchange Club of Milledgeville is making preparations for this year's Christmas Parade which will begin at 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec.

The Sparta-Hancock County Library could end up laying folks off and cutting hours of operation.

11 a.m. to 1 p.m.: Pine Tree Festival in Hancock county holds a Pine Tree parade.

Noon: The Rotary meets at the Country Club. Noon: The Eatonton Kiwanis Club meets at Central Georgia Tech on the James Marshall bypass.

The public gave a heated commentary over the millage rate during a meeting at the Hancock County Board of Education Wednesday night.

The office of U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor says the Stennis Space Center in Hancock County is being considered as the home for a Navy Riverines unit.

The editor of the LaGrange Daily News will retire next month after more than three decades at the newspaper.

A volunteer firefighter in Hancock County died of an apparent heart attack last weekend during a rescue call.

A firefighter from Hancock County, GA died yesterday while on a medical call. Firefighter JD Street, a member of Hancock County VFD, was operating at the EMS call on Saturday when he suffered a medical emergency of his own and passed away.

The Rev. Michael Curry, right, gets a pat on the back from deacon Dean Charles Allen, a 54 year member, as they stand on the front steps taking in the twisted wreckage of the Hickory Grove Missionary Baptist Church on Hickory Grove Church Road in Hancock County Feb.

One construction worker was killed and four others were hurt Wednesday in an accident at the Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Hancock County.

One man died and his girlfriend is still in the hospital following a home invasion in Sparta late Wednesday night, said the Hancock County Sheriff's Office.

Jeff Gold, center, and Dena Mehalakes, right, talk to a group from Elberton Christian School on Wednesday during a tour of the new Tornado Alley Trail at the Georgia Nature Center in Farmington.

That's according to new data released by the state Department of Labor. In Central Georgia, Houston County had the lowest unemployment rate, coming in at 7.6 percent.

A 20-year-old Sparta man died early Saturday when his pickup truck failed to negotiate a curve in Hancock County.

A Hancock County church destroyed by a tornado earlier this year held a groundbreaking for their new sanctuary Sunday.