SPARTA -- Like many Southern Illinois towns, Sparta was built on the backs of the railroad and coal mines, and on that foundation the town has carved a unique history complete with aviation and comic ...

SPARTA, Wis. (WEAU) - Authorities say five people were hurt at a fireworks show in Sparta. According to information from Fire Chief Mike Arnold, Erv’s Sparta Area Fire Protection District, on July 4, ...

Sparta football fans who may have thought that this year’s Spartan football team was the best in school history may want to pick up the recently published book “History of Sparta Football” written by ...

SPARTA —Additional charges are expected to be filed in connection with a wild house party in an upscale Sparta neighborhood that attracted more than 100 people and has already resulted in the arrest ...

King Agesilaus II—who led the Spartan Army at the peak of its power in the fourth century B.C.—proclaimed that one of Sparta’s greatest strengths was its citizens’ “contempt of pleasure.” Nonsense.

Sparta had a highly unusual system of government. Two kings ruled the city, but a 28-member 'council of elders' limited their powers. These men were recruited from the highest social class, the ...