Hancock County News

The historic Sallie Davis house will be restored through a partnership of supporters.

While state unemployment rose slightly in April, several regions saw drops in jobless, evidence that Georgia's economic picture may be stabilizing, labor officials said Thursday.

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

Volunteers and staff from the Central Georgia Regional Chapter are responding to reports of tornado damage in Hancock County.

Chuck Reynolds, Editor of the Sparta Ishmaelite newspaper, sent in pictures of damage on Dunn Road.

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

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

Storms late Friday affected homes off Highway 16 in Hancock County. The county's Emergency Management Director says there were no injuries.

The United States Geological Survey reports two small earthquakes in Central Georgia on Saturday.

The Columbus metro area unemployment rate came up just short of 9 percent in February, the Georgia Department of Labor reported Thursday.

An Hancock State Prison inmate has been charged with stabbing another inmate to death this month.

More than half of Georgia's 159 counties have posted double-digit unemployment rates, according to an analysis from the state Labor Department.

A new report estimates as many as 13 percent of Georgia families aren't able to put food on their tables and most of them are in southwest Georgia.

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 ...

Temperatures were slightly above normal and rainfall was below normal for most of Georgia in February, according to data collected by the Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring Network and the National ...

A tornado ripped through Hancock County on Wednesday, injuring two people and killing one inside a mobile home.A The two injured were taken to metro Atlanta hospitals.

Wednesday's violent storms spawned 11 tornadoes throughout parts of Georgia, 22 people were hurt.

Gov. Sonny Perdue has declared a state of emergency in four Georgia counties following Wednesday's violent storms that spawned 11 tornadoes, killing one person and injuring 22 others.

The National Weather Service confirmed 10 tornadoes touched down Wednesday including one that killed a Hancock County man.

A powerful and deadly tornado hit Hancock County Wednesday night. The National Weather Service says it was an EF3 tornado with 140 mile per hour winds that killed Hancock County Employee Johnny Frank Baker.