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.

Pro wrestler Chris Benoit, suspected of killing his wife and child before killing himself at the family’s Fayette home last week, was prescribed a large amount of steroids every three to four weeks for the year ending May 9, 2007, according to an affidavit filed to secure a search warrant on Benoit’s doctor, Phil Astin III of Carrollton.

Dr. Phil Astin III, the personal doctor for deceased pro wrestler Chris Benoit, has been formally accused of seven different federal charges relating to the issuance of prescriptions without medical need, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney's Office.

When Nancy Benoit came to his office in 2003 to seek protection from her husband, pro wrestler Chris Benoit, she appeared genuinely afraid of her husband, according to the attorney who represented her during the divorce case Mrs. Benoit ultimately dropped.

Sheriff’s deputies arrested a wrestling fan from South Carolina Thursday afternoon after she threw rocks at a neighbor near the home of pro wrestler Chris Benoit.

Anonymous poster claims death reference was coincidental

An anonymous person is apologizing for editing an online biography of pro wrestler Chris Benoit to indicate that his wife was dead some 14 hours before the family’s bodies were found in their central Fayette home.

Fayetteville Police are looking for the driver of a white late 1990’s model Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in connection with a hit and run involving a bicyclist at approximately 12:30 p.m. near the intersection of Ga. Highway 85 and Ga. Highway 54.

Dr. Phil Astin III not arrested, but is “person of interest”

Drug agents from the Fayette County Sheriff’s Department Wednesday at midnight raided the office of the personal physician for pro wrestler Chris Benoit, serving a search warrant in Carrollton, officials said.

Albany County, New York prosecutors said Wednesday that pro wrestler Chris Benoit had received packages from an Orlando, Fla. company whose owners have admitted to prescribing drugs — including steroids — even though the company knew the patients had no medical need for the drugs.

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The Planterra Ridge Homeowners Association will pay the full $36,000 to replace speed bumps in its Peachtree City subdivision with less intrusive speed cushions.

Famous pro wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife Friday, smothered his 7-year-old son Saturday and then hanged himself in his weight room

First, famed professional wrestler Chris Benoit placed one Bible beside the bound body of his wife, Nancy, and another beside the lifeless body of his 7-year-old son, Daniel.

Then sometime Saturday Benoit looped a weight machine cable around his neck and hanged himself in the basement weight room of his secluded mansion off rural Quarters Road, according to Lt. Tommy Pope, lead investigator for the Fayette County Sheriff's Department.

It may be time for the second of three proposed increases in as many years for Fayetteville water and sewer customers. If approved by the City Council July 19, customers would see a 10 percent increase coming their way.

Fayetteville urging caution; officials worry dry conditions could help sparks become wild fire

Peachtree City fire officials are asking residents to forego the use of personal fireworks this July 4th in light of the ongoing drought.

A June 21 drug reverse by Fayette Sheriff’s Drug Task Force (DTF) undercover agents at Fayette Pavilion landed three Morrow men in jail after they paid $25,000 to purchase a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of cocaine. Agents a short time later arrested a Jonesboro couple for selling the psychoactive drug ecstasy.

Fayette’s youngest scientists proved they are among the best in the state by earning top awards in the Elementary State Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament.

While their classmates enjoy summer vacation, members of the Technology Student Association (TSA) at Whitewater High will be competing at national competition.

Students returning to Fayette County High this fall will notice some changes in the school’s guidance department.

Due to a new graduation coach program that is being implemented this year to provide additional support for students, the counseling staff is shifting student-counselor assignments to accommodate for personnel changes associated with the program.

Gallopade International is pleased to announce that Carole Marsh was recently named Georgia Author of the Year, for Children’s Books by the Georgia Writer’s Association.

Peachtree City’s World Air Holdings, announced that a special meeting of World Air Holdings stockholders is at 10 a.m., July 18 at World Air Holdings' offices at 101 World Dr. in Peachtree City in connection with the pending acquisition of World Air Holdings by Global Aero Logistics.

While Fayette County may have seen the biggest uptick in the region during the last year for foreclosure percentage increase, the total numbers of foreclosures in the county is the lowest in the 10-county metro Atlanta area.

The Peachtree City Council is heading toward a decision to let voters decide if they want to pay for a $3.6 million Astroturf multi-purpose sports field area and an expansion of the city’s senior citizens center.

Fayetteville’s much discussed ordinances for maximum residential occupancy and group homes were adopted June 21 with little fanfare. The proposed ordinance addressing residential parking will be on the council’s July 19 agenda.

Fayetteville may hold its tax rate steady at 2.99 mills for the new fiscal year in August. But with a projected 7.5 percent increase in ad valorem taxes because of increased property values, it still amounts to a tax increase.

Authorities believe wrestler Benoit killed wife, son then himself

Authorities believe a professional wrestler, his wife and son ‑ found dead in their central Fayette County home Monday afternoon ‑ died in a murder-suicide.

Two people were injured late Monday morning in a two-car crash on Ga. Highway 92 and New Hope Road, officials said.

Fayetteville City Council June 21 heard the first reading of the proposed FY 2008 budget, set to become effective Aug. 1.

It is always nice to have a little disposable income on hand. But for three Morrow men, their plan to spend $25,000 at the Fayette Pavilion Thursday night to buy a kilogram of powdered cocaine and turn it into crack cocaine just did not pan out.