Other suspect still at large

Two enterprising criminals nearly got away with an ATM from a Fayetteville gas station early Thursday morning, police said.

Patrick Enzor (rear) tackles Scott Allen at the McIntosh High School foootball camp.

Senoia’s staff got a huge raise Monday night, thanks to the City Council.

After the regular meeting was over, the council went into executive session to discuss a personnel item.

Builders could soon face a steeper price to build homes in Senoia.

Thomas Crossroads Elementary School Media Specialist Jennifer Harkleroad has been named the Media Specialist of the Year for the West Georgia region by the Georgia Library Media Association.

Land swap off the table

First Baptist Church of Peachtree City has abandoned its request to acquire the city’s existing Pebblepocket tennis courts in a land swap to build a community center.

No one was injured when a Fayetteville home was heavily damaged by fire this afternoon, according to city Fire Chief Alan Jones.

County’s legal firm collects over $400,000 a year for past 3 years

Fayette taxpayers are paying dearly for the legal disputes between the Fayette County Board of Commissioners and Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson, and that has also made the county’s legal bills swell over the last three years, according to an analysis conducted by The Citizen.

Gathering draws scant crowd

Judging by the lack of attendance at a candidate forum last week, voter turnout in Fayette’s July 18 primary election may be light.

The NAACP Fayette Candidates Forum for Fayette County will take place Saturday at 5 p.m. at the Stonewall Administrative Complex in Fayetteville.

Fayette County will get its second Muslim worship center after all. Renewed plans to locate the center on a five-acre site at Flat Creek Trail and Ga. Highway 54 east of Peachtree City have been filed under a conditional use of the current zoning designation. Construction is expected to begin in mid-August.

For the first time in 20 years, the Fayette County Department of Fire and Emergency Services has added an ambulance to its fleet.

The employees and owners of the nonprofit Fayette Care Clinic celebrate after President Gail McNair (front left) cuts the ribbon for the clinic’s opening.

Area developer John Wieland Homes is being taken to court as the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission pursues an investigation into the company’s hiring practices, officials said.

Peachtree City middle school students will have a fun after-school option starting in the fall instead of going home alone.

With hours to go before the county’s employees had to start searching for new doctors, the Fayette County Commission approved swapping the county’s health insurance plan to CIGNA.

A May request by Target to add more than 9,000 square feet on the front of its Fayette Pavilion store by extending the building 35 feet and decreasing the number of parking spaces was approved June 27 by Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission.

It was just an ordinary summer afternoon on the hot asphalt at Fayette Pavilion. But things got a lot hotter June 29 for three Atlanta men charged with attempting to traffic in marijuana.

It was a field of dreams that required no movie set and no Hollywood actors. This real-life field of dreams sits today behind Peeples Elementary School. It exists because a mother believed children attending the school should have a place to play soccer and have outdoor physical education activities. That starting point a few months ago grew into an effort that saw the field graded and grassed June 23.

The Fayette County Republican Party monthly breakfast will be July 8 at the IHOP in Fayetteville on Jeff Davis Drive beginning at 9 a.m.

A proposal to develop the initial phase of an 88-acre office park along the east side of Ga. Highway 74 between Jenkins Road and Sandy Creek Road received a recommendation June 29 from Tyrone Planning Commission. The board recommended amending the Land Use Map to change a 10-acre portion of the tract from Office to Highway Commercial and to rezoning those acres from Office Institutional (OI) to Limited Use Commercial (LUC).

Do you recognize this building under construction? It’s Tyrone’s new Legacy Theater and it is coming together quickly.

Three teenagers were arrested early Wednesday morning after a citizen reported suspicious activity in Tyrone’s Tullamore subdivision, police said.

William Thomas Overby was a Confederate soldier from Coweta County who entered service on May 31, 1861.

Chief Michael Isome announced this week the implementation of a community information line to assist citizens of Union City who wish to exchange ideas and information with the department.

It was quite the occasion. An endless list of South Fulton civic and political leaders, residents and guests took their places at the intersection of Rivertown Road and South Fulton Parkway June 29 for the grand opening of the South Fulton Parkway. Also attending were family members of decades-long parkway advocate, Bill Melear, who was honored during the ceremony and again after the ribbon cutting that opened the parkway. A sign marking the Bill Melear Parkway was unveiled along the roadway at the end of the ceremony.

Fairburn’s third hotel on the Ga. Highway 74 Corridor is under construction.

Palmetto is on the way to making its first acquisition in the summer of annexation. The city’s Planning & Zoning Board Monday voted to recommend the rezoning and annexation of 98 acres along Ga. Highway 154 for the potential development of a 144-unit subdivision.

Tragedy struck hard early Monday morning when two children died after the car they were traveling in hydroplaned on Roosevelt Highway, spinning out of control and colliding with a southbound vehicle.

Union City council members moved forward with the annexation of unincorporated islands June 20, holding 28 public hearings to consider the rezoning and annexation of a portion of those islands. There was only minor opposition to the moves that had been requested earlier in the year by Fulton County.