7-year-old son drugged with xanax before killing

Toxicology tests have shown that Daniel Benoit, 7, was drugged with the anti-anxiety drug xanax at the time of his death, and his pro wrestler father Chris Benoit had been taking the steroid testosterone along with a “therapeutic” level of xanax, according to Georgia Chief Medical Examiner Kris Sperry.

Tyrone Police are seeking information regarding an armed robbery near midnight Monday at the BP/Amoco station on Ga. Highway 74 and Tyrone Road.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is expected to provide an update this afternoon in the investigation into the deaths of pro wrestler Chris Benoit, his wife and their son, who were found dead three weeks ago in their Fayette home.

A woman charged two weeks ago with misdemeanor vehicular homicide stemming from a fatal crash in Peachtree City in March was arrested early Saturday morning for DUI, Peachtree City police said.

Fayette County sheriff deputies arrested two suspects — and were looking for two more — immediately after a burglary in progress was reported in a neighborhood off New Hope Road early Monday afternoon, police said.

Fayetteville police arrested three men early Thursday morning after an officer spotted them acting strangely in the parking lot of the Jiffy Lube.

Tyrone’s new library is starting to reach for the sky as construction continued this week. The library should be finished in December. Photo/Ben Nelms.

The Fayette County Branch of the NAACP along with the Fayette County Board of Education and the Theta Lambda Lambda Chapter of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity is sponsoring an event to encourage adult men and young men ages 14-18 to endeavor to reach extraordinary heights in school, society and in life as they stand and operate in the full image of God. The conference also encourages young men to strive for excellence in academics; and help build stronger relationships between younger men and their adult role models and mentors.

Despite the protestation of three former Fayette County Commission chairmen, the County Commission Thursday night decided to seek a different direction for its legal services.

With a 4-1 vote, the County Commission ended the 27-year career of county attorney Bill McNally. Commissioner Eric Maxwell made the motion to hire an in-house county attorney, and to use McNally’s law firm only if the scope of work exceeded what the staff attorney could do.

After 30 years of starts and stops, Lake McIntosh received its final permit from the Army Corps of Engineers this week.

The much anticipated move to place the South Fulton Parkway into the hands of Georgia Dept. of Transportation (GDOT) came to fruition Wednesday. Being designated a state highway should preserve the parkway’s limited access as it becomes a major traffic corridor in the fast growing area of west metro Atlanta.

A resolution to the standoff between members of South Fulton Municipal Regional Water & Sewer Authority came to an end Tuesday as representatives of Palmetto and Union City agreed to refinance the authority’s $41.7 million bond and use the savings to pay down the principal and interest.

The U.S. Dept. of Justice has cleared the way for the vote on the city of South Fulton, likely to be held in September. The clearance came in a July 10 letter to Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker.

Fulton County erosion control inspector Don Mitchell faces up to 10 years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines after pleading guilty to soliciting and taking cash and other bribes from a contractor during the course of his job.

Fairburn Police are seeking two men in connection with the armed robbery Tuesday at Hampton Inn on Ga. Highway 74 and Oakley Industrial Boulevard.

Topics as diverse as a new hotel on Ga. Highway 74 and a proposed garbage transfer station dotted the landscape at the Tuesday meeting of the Fairburn City Council. Approval of the conceptual site plan for Holiday Inn Express was voted in by the council, while the future of the transfer station on Bohannon Road was put on hold until August.

Members of the South Fulton and Fayette Community Task Force refuse to give up. It is now a full year since hundreds became ill after breathing the onion-like odor that state and federal investigators later said were emissions of the chemical odorant Propyl mercaptan from the Phillip Services Corp. plant near Fairburn. Residents say they are more committed than ever to pressing those same state and federal agencies to maintain medical follow-ups on the health status of affected citizens.

The Peachtree City Police Department is looking for persons 18 and over who are interested in learning how to help themselves and the community after an emergency event.

"This Week in The Citizen" looks at the dismissal of county attorney Bill McNally.

On the night of one his greatest accomplishments, Fayette County attorney Bill McNally was voted out of his primary job.

Peachtree City officials have achieved further savings in the upcoming 2007-08 budget, largely by factoring in salary savings from ongoing vacant positions in the city’s police department.

Georgia Army National Guard Cpl. Tom Andris of Peachtree City (left), a rifleman with Covington’s Company B, 1st Battalion, 121st Infantry, watches as Command Sgt.

The Peachtree City Rotary Club’s Safety Town program is underway at several local schools. The event is designed to teach chlidren from 5-7 years old various safety issues including traffic, fire, school bus and bike safety along with stranger awareness, poison prevention, Internet safety and litter control. Photo/Special.

Traditions Framing, “life inside ninety degrees,” celebrated their grand opening with a Newnan-Coweta Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting.

Work continues on one of the signature new buildings in Senoia.

Beer found in injured driver’s car; other driver arrested for DUI

Two Fayetteville men were racing each other when one lost control of his car on Walt Banks Road in Peachtree City across from McIntosh High School late Tuesday night, police said.

Peachtree City recreation officials have determined to ask voters to approve the larger option for expanding the city’s Gathering Place senior citizen’s center.

Peachtree City residents can now recycle a plethora of electronic items, with a few exceptions, at the city’s recycling center.

A Peachtree City Boy Scout is collecting school supplies that will be donated to children whose families cannot afford to purchase them.

Tests of students’ mastery of the state of Georgia curriculum show that Coweta students have continued to improve their performance over the last several years, and that the Coweta school system consistently outperforms the state.