The mental competency and murder trials for April Dawn Ulrich, set to begin Wednesday, have been delayed due to the death of the psychologist who was to be an expert witness for the defense.

It was a precautionary tale Tuesday night as Tyrone Police responded to a suspicious, but ultimately harmless, briefcase found behind Southhampton Village shopping center on Ga. Highway 74. Officers evacuated the few open businesses prior to members of the Clayton County bomb squad determining that the briefcase was empty and posed no threat.

Another of the Olde Towne Tyrone projects moved a step closer to reality June 28 as Tyrone Planning Commission heard and signed off on the conditions related to the approval of the final site plan for Lot #9. The issue was continued from May.

A Fairburn man died of multiple gunshot wounds in the early morning hours June 30 near the Union City residence of his former girlfriend. Twenty-three year-old Dontarious Shackleford was reportedly throwing items at the woman’s house when eight males exited the residence, chased and beat him before two of the males fired several shots into his upper body.

Fulton County Board of Commissioners June 20 announced a general fund millage rate decrease of 1.126 mills and a South Fulton Tax District reduction of .072 mills over last year’s rate. The new general fund rate will come within just over one-tenth mill of amounting to no net tax increase. Figures for the impact on the Special Service District are under review.

The hotel business continues to keep I-85 and Ga. Highway 74 in its crosshairs. That attention was evidenced Tuesday as Fairburn Planning Commission agreed to recommend a conceptual site plan for a 75-room, four-story Holiday Inn Express on the southside of the interchange.

A special edition of "This Week in The Citizen" revisits this year's Fourth of July parade and fireworks display in Peachtree City.

Be sure to check out our hundreds of pictures from the day's events at HERE.

All of Fayette County's 27 school have made Adequate Yearly Progress in this year's scorecard for No Child Left Behind. According to the Department of Education's website, AYP is an annual measure of student participation and achievement of statewide assessments and other academic indicators.

When the dust cleared Friday in Fulton County Superior Court, Peachtree City had the option of making good on Georgia Regional Transportation Authority’s (GRTA) insistence that the bridge on TDK have four lanes or face possible funding restrictions on future transportation projects in the area.

A night of fireworks over Lake Peachtree capped another succesful celebration of the holiday in Peachtree City. Pictured below is a Dragon boat, which will next make a stop in October 6 for the Touch a World festival that will showcase the city’s diversity.

Peachtree City’s Water and Sewage Authority is looking toward the near future of the city’s south end, particularly on how to best provide sewer service for new and existing development.

Peachtree City officials are looking into running an irrigation line to the city’s Baseball and Soccer Complex that would reuse specially-treated sewage water instead of drinking water.

The recent spate of activity in downtown Senoia will continue as the old Hutchinson’s Hardware will soon be re-developed.

During Monday night’s City Council meeting, the city agreed to let the property on the city’s Main Street to be re-platted from four plats to two.

Fayette County Sheriff’s officials are investigating a single vehicle crash that killed a Newnan resident late Tuesday afternoon.

The annual Peachtree City Fourth of July parade and fireworks brought thousands of people to the city for a festive celebration.

Be sure to check out our hundreds of pictures from yesterday's events HERE.

Several citizens decided to set out their tarps late Tuesday evening in Peachtree City for the annual fireworks show Wednesday night.

Patriotic residents were out in mass this morning for the annual Peachtree City Fourth of July parade. The parade featured over 150 floats, golf carts, trucks and cars.

To see all of the photos from the day's events, visit the photo gallery HERE.

Members of the Peachtree City Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Fayetteville American Legion posts will join together today to hand out some 4,000 U.S.

Campers enjoy a good period dance in the summer sun last week at the International Folk Dance Camp at Victorian Adventures in Fayetteville. The children learned dances from several European countries and made costumes and sampled foods from various regions. Visit www.victorianadventures.com for more information on the other camps offered this summer. Photo/Ian Davis

State records indicate most people in north Fayette and south Fulton counties who reported illnesses following last summer‘s release of chemicals that smelled like onions were never contacted by state or federal agencies for a follow-up health report.

Attorneys for Peachtree City and the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority will appear in court Friday to argue whether GRTA can force the city to make certain transportation improvements.

Linda Crowden is tired of seeing cars for sale dotting the scenic byways of Fayette County.

During last week’s County Commission meeting, Crowden, a 10-year resident, said she saw occasional cars for sale in a yard or a vacant lot. But now, the problem has got much worse.

The personal doctor for Chris Benoit has officially been linked to prescribing a large amount of anabolic steroids to the pro wrestler, who police believe killed his wife and son, then himself at their Fayette County home June 23-25.

With commute times steadily increasing and gasoline at chronically high prices, Sara Reams resolved to help out Fayette residents beleaguered by their long, lonely, costly trips to work.

The expanding medical alley along Ga. Highway 54 West might get a couple of new additions inside Fayetteville city limits. Planning and Zoning commissioners June 26 voted to recommend annexation and rezoning requests that would put Dogwood Forest assisted living center and a proposed 40,000-square-foot medical office building near Piedmont Fayette Hospital inside the city.

The committee that will decide Fayette County elementary school boundaries for the 2008-2009 school year is having a busy summer so far.

A Fayetteville woman was arrested Saturday for attacking her husband with a knife during an argument, police said.

Lori Jeanne Grant, 33, of 185 Lakeland Circle, was arrested for aggravated assault and two counts of cruelty to children in the third degree, police said. The latter two charges were placed because two children witnessed the assault, police said.

Victim followed seconds before incident

A Jonesboro teen was arrested Tuesday morning after he snuck up behind an elderly woman in her driveway and grabbed her purse, police said.

A craving for corn chips helped a Peachtree City man make out big in lottery winnings.

The Mega Millions ticket Dana Peace purchased in Sharpsburg matched the first five numbers in the June 22 drawing. Peace, 26, won a $250,000 prize, and plans to use the money to attend commercial pilot school.

PTC crash killed 2 Fayetteville men

A Fayetteville woman has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide stemming from a collision on Ga. Highway 74 and Aberdeen Parkway that killed two Fayetteville men March 28, police said.