Two students at McIntosh High School have been charged with drug distribution on campus after a teacher found “an apparent drug transaction” in a school bathroom last week, police said.

The Ga. Highway 54 corridor’s evolution between Fayetteville and Peachtree City as an office environment picked up steam during last Thursday’s meeting of the Fayette County Commission.

Town Square Jewelers is taking its renovation plans to Fayetteville City Council May 3 on appeal after the proposal was denied last month by Planning and Zoning commissioners.

Fayetteville’s new commercial landmark was approved April 24 by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission. That approval will bring the 39,000 square-foot Main Street Office Center to 320 Lanier Ave., the western entrance to downtown Fayetteville.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Coweta County sheriff’s deputy should not be sued for ramming a fleeing motorist who caused a danger to others in running from deputies on a chase that ended in Peachtree City.

A Fayetteville man survived a three-car pileup that sent his SUV careening off Ga. Highway 314 and into the fence surrounding a playground at a Fayetteville day care center.

Court rules that fleeing motorist endangered others on the road

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that a Coweta County sheriff’s deputy should not be sued for ramming a fleeing motorist who caused a danger to others in running from deputies on a chase that ended in Peachtree City.

Compared to the often multi-hour road safety checks along city streets and county highways, it was a relatively brief affair. But police from Fayetteville, Senoia and Coweta County Sheriff’s Office in the early morning hours of April 28 made six arrests and issued 10 citations on Ga. Highway 85 in less than two hours.

The Home Source Realtors General Brokerage office in Peachtree City is sponsoring a huge yard sale on Saturday, May 5, from 8 a.m. - 1 p.m. Proceeds will benefit local charities and contribute to the purchase of a heart defribillator for a local high school.

Fayette County resident David Paulk was recently appointed by Governor Sonny Perdue to an official task force that will examine the state’s insurance programs.

Craig M. Western, a senior at Fayette County’s McIntosh High School, was named First Runner-up State PAGE STAR Student and chose Mary Wilde, his Science teacher at J. C Booth Middle School, as his STAR Teacher.

A future physicist currently at Sandy Creek High has been awarded a grant from Norfolk State University to pursue his studies.

Students helped make the earth healthier by providing grocery shoppers with paper bags decorated with environmental messages.

Fayette’s school counselors celebrated their craft and honored their colleagues during the seventh annual Fayette School Counselors Association (FSCA) Installation of Officers and Awards Ceremony.

Over $16,900 in grants have been awarded to educators by the Fayette County Education Foundation to help fund innovative teaching ideas at public schools throughout the county.

Students and faculty at Robert J. Burch Elementary School raised a record $10,600 during their school’s annual Math-A-Thon event.

SUV plows into fence at playground; no kids were outside at the time

McIntosh goalkeeper Rachel Barnette makes a sliding save in the Lady Chiefs’ 3-2 win Friday over Blessed Trinity. The game against the Lady

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The Peachtree City Council has agreed to seek a cost estimate for an “unbiased” consultant to study traffic and other ramifications from the proposed extension of TDK Boulevard into Coweta County.

At the request of the developer, the Peachtree City Council Thursday night postponed consideration of a controversial rezoning on Ga. Highway 74 South near Holly Grove Road for a 300,000-square-foot shopping center directly across from the Wilshire Pavilion shopping center.

Two north Fayette residents were arrested Sunday for allowing three children to live in an unsanitary environment in which they were malnourished, according to arrest warrants filed by a Fayette County sheriff’s deputy.

Could commuter bus service be in the cards for Fayette County?

During last week’s meeting of the Coweta County Commission, Georgia Regional Transportation Authority representative Jim Ritchey provided the neighboring county’s commissioners an overall view of the success of the system in Coweta.

In just under three weeks, Fayette’s community advisory committee will hold its first meeting and begin working on next year’s redistricting process for elementary school attendance zones.

Fayetteville police are investigating two armed robberies last week where the suspects posed as customers, bringing items for purchase to the counter before pulling their guns.

A Roswell man connected to a 2005 shooting in Peachtree City has been arrested by Roswell authorities, police said.

Sadino Rivera, 29, of Frazier Street, Roswell was arrested Saturday when Roswell police responded to a domestic violence incident in which Rivera is accused of breaking into a woman’s home after she refused to let him in, police said.

The solution to some of Fayetteville’s current and future downtown traffic congestion might be found where two X’s mark the spot.

This year’s Pennies for Patients campaign at Peachtree City Elementary had special meaning for students and staff.

Fellow third grader Shane Rienks is battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and was recently treated for the form of blood cancer. The school named Shane their honored hero for the campaign.

Mucklow's Fine Jewelry in Peachtree City will be hosting an event for children April 28 from 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; May 5 11 a.m.-4 p.m., and May 6 noon-4 p.m.

The Peachtree City Police Department is accepting applicants for its Citizen’s Police Academy course, which will begin Thursday, May 10.

The following arrests were reported by local law enforcement agencies for the past week. All persons are considered innocent until proven guilty: