A 27-year-old inmate at Hancock State Prison was stabbed to death Wednesday afternoon, The Union-Recorder has learned.

Longtime Milledgeville City Council Alderman John William Grant Jr., who later was elected mayor, died Saturday morning. He was 99.

The body of a man who reportedly attends Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville was discovered at a house off campus during the noon hour Monday, The Union-Recorder has learned.

A Valentine’s Day house fire on the outskirts of Sandersville has left a brother and his sister dead, local authorities say.

When Jacob Rossi was contemplating what sort of project he wanted to do to earn his Eagle Scout badge, he came up with a nifty one right from the start.

A 7-year-old non-verbal autistic boy who wandered away from home at Lake Oconee in Putnam County was later discovered in the lake by a mail carrier.

Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Justin Brock said the woman, who was 87, left a residence on the 700 block of Lower Harmony Road in the northern end of the county wearing on ...

A man crashed his pickup truck through the front doors of Jet Food Store No. 44 in Eatonton on Wednesday morning.

An inmate was killed and another one hospitalized following a double stabbing attack between two cellmates at Hancock State Prison Friday morning, authorities say.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first of a two-part series about Bill McNair, a former college basketball star at East Carolina and Georgia Southern University, who became a legend on a world-class stage.