A former Fayetteville man has been sentenced to 180 days in a detention center after pleading guilty to arranging a sexual encounter online with a girl he thought was 14 years old who turned out to be an undercover police officer, police said.

The summer of annexation is coming to a close with the force of a few megatons. Palmetto, Union City and Fairburn are looking to end September with the addition of thousands of acres to their cities beyond the thousands already annexed.

Union City is poised to hold the first of two public meetings on the proposed Tax Allocation District (TAD) that will appear on the Nov. 7 ballot. Scheduled for Sept. 21 and Oct. 12, the meetings will highlight the city’s intent to redevelop the area around Shannon Mall and Ga. Highway 138.

Biologist Dennis Chase looks on as McIntosh High School students Elizabeth Humphries and Sam Hale take samples at Flat Creek Sept.

Fulton County has reached an agreement with the Fulton County Board of Education regarding the improvements to the roads and construction at Renaissance Elementary School and the new Jones Hall Middle School in South Fulton County.

An ideal late summer weekend could provide record crowds to this weekend’s signature celebration in Tyrone.

There is never an end to the activities at Rico Cultural Center.

The following arrests were made by Fairburn Police between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5:

juvenile, male, 13, Thomasville, burglary

State and federal officials confirmed Friday that tests showed toxic chemical presence of hundreds of thousands of times the accepted upper safe exposure levels for humans in south Fulton County beginning in late spring and early summer.

The questions on everybody's lips before this game were, how good is Creekside's Eric Berry and will Starr's Mill be able to stop him? The answers were very good and a little bit.

A Peachtree City fireman and policeman solemnly place a memorial wreath Sunday afternoon in memory of the victims of the Sept.

PTC teen died after incident at early-morning party

A Sharpsburg teen has been indicted for involuntary manslaughter in connection with the shooting death of a Peachtree City teen at a party July 20.

TDK deal nearly clinched

Nearby Coweta development would add 22,000 cars a day to Hwy. 74 corridor

Permits granted for Lake McIntosh on Line Creek

Fayette County officials have received all necessary permits to build the Lake McIntosh reservoir along Line Creek in Peachtree City, County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn said Tuesday night.

Insurance and Fire Commissioner John W. Oxendine and Coweta County Sheriff Michael S. Yeager said a suspect has been arrested and charged with one count of first- degree arson in a Nov. 2004 fire that damaged a house under construction in Coweta County.

Fayette County law and school officials showed Wednesday just how serious they are about weeding out illegal students in the school system.

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Fayette County Chief Sheriff’s Detective Bruce Jordan has been demoted, suspended and will be re-assigned to another position in the department after an internal investigation determined that he violated department regulations, Sheriff Randall Johnson said in a prepared statement Thursday morning.

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PTC Council declines to vote on road fate

The Peachtree City Council declined again Tuesday night to vote on whether or not to extend TDK Boulevard into Coweta County despite projections that a development proposed for Coweta County will add 22,000 car trips a day to Ga. Highway 74.

Whatever is ultimately decided about the fate of the TDK Boulevard Extension into Coweta County, at least some Peachtree City residents have voiced their feelings that the project be cancelled.

Pathway Communities’ Twelve Parks at Sharpsburg planned community got an icy reception Monday night from the more than 200 people that packed the recreation center in the tiny eastern Coweta town.

The Peachtree City Planning Commission now knows more about two large subdivisions that are proposed as part of a 869-acre development, most of which must be annexed into the city limits — by John Wieland Homes and Levitt and Sons.

“We have no records,” admits the Georgia Environmental Protection Division.

The wheels are in motion for a possible criminal investigation into the chief detective of the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office over the assignment of two detectives to a security detail for a local youth baseball team on a trip to Tennessee and allegations they were paid with money from the sheriff’s drug seizure fund.

County Commission Chairman Greg Dunn knew something like the current controversy surrounding Lt. Colonel Bruce Jordan of the Fayette County Sheriffs’ Department was going to happen.

It’s all for God and country. And it shows.

After the summer concert series at The Frederick Brown Jr. Amphitheater is over, some real heavy hitters will come to town.

It’s the time of year that parents and school administrators dread: Redrawing school boundaries for the opening of a new school.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is about to get tough with parking scofflaws on Christopher Road in front of Whitewater Middle School.

Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation awarded a $50,000 grant to Whitewater High School. The funds will be used for several school improvement projects, including locker room construction and beautification of school grounds.