A north Fayette man has been arrested for participating in an armed robbery at the Four Seasons Mobile Home Community in north Fayette County.

Over a year and several revisions later, some Fayette students can finally lay claim to being the first to write a publication of SparkNotes, study guides used by high school and college students for popular books, plays and poems.

Fayetteville businessman and chairman of the University System of Georgia Board of Regents Allan Vigil will be the guest speaker at the groundbreaking for Gordon College’s newest resident housing, Gordon Village.

Young Olympians showed off their scientific aptitude during the county’s annual Elementary Science Olympiad (ESO) for grades 3-5.

Fayette Youth Protection Homes will host the annual Friday-Johnson Golf Tournament on Monday, May 14th at Whitewater Country Club. Proceeds from the event benefit the Friday-Johnson Home, a residential group home that provides a safe and loving environment for school-age children who have been the victims of abuse or neglect.

Report: 3 kids malnourished, slept on living room floor

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.

A north Fayette man has been arrested for participating in an armed robbery at the Landmark Mobile Home Community in north Fayette County.

David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, and all heads of federal investigative agencies in the Northern District of Georgia announce that the 27th Annual Crime Victims Rights Week is scheduled for April 22-29.

As members of the Predictor-Lotto team ride through the busy City Hall plaza in Peachtree City on Monday morning, prior to the 1 p.m.

If the Peachtree City Council approves a rezoning for a proposed shopping center on Ga. Highway 74 South Thursday night, it will create the largest retail area in the city.

Developer Tom Reese’s vision for an upscale development in neighboring Coweta County could have a huge impact on the financial health of that county and the state.

Over budget and under-funded, the first phase of Fayette County’s newest park, Kenwood Park, will be scaled back a bit to save money, the County Commission decided last week.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is now probing the handling of a child abuse case in which the Fayetteville mother accused of striking her child multiple times with a belt is also the assistant director of Fulton County’s office of the Department of Family and Children Services.

Curious residents driving through downtown Fayetteville may have noticed a huge sign across from the old county courthouse.

Larry and Twila Dove, owners of Two Doves Farm, an organic farm located at 380 Ebenezer Church Rd. west of Fayetteville, are self-described environmentalists. This year they decided to put their money where their hearts are.

A developer has withdrawn plans to locate a 92-home subdivision on a 213-acre site in unincorporated Fayette County bordered by Davis Road and Ebenezer Church Road.

It was a low-key affair April 12 at Fayetteville City Hall as two dozen members of the Cool Rahim V.O.T.S. (Victims of the System) Foundation, Fayette County NAACP and others offered prayers and held a quiet candlelight vigil for Rahim Grant, being held without bond in Fayette County Jail on multiple charges stemming from incidents in May and September 2006.

Details on plans to construct Main Street Officer Center, a three-story office and bank building on Ga. Highway 54 where Lanier Avenue and Stonewall Avenue split, were heard at the April 12 work session of Fayetteville Planning and Zoning Commission.

After more than a decade of service to Fayette County, Public Works Director Lee Hearn feels it’s time to move on to the next challenge in his career.

Alex Rodriguez may or may not get a face-lift for Town Square Jewelers in Fayetteville. Deciding on part of a $200,000 project to significantly renovate the building at Stonewall Avenue and Ga. Highway 85, Planning and Zoning commissioners April 12 denied the proposal after a motion to approve the plan failed, paving the way for a appeal May 3 to the City Council.

Each year, Red Cross volunteers respond to hundreds of calls for help across Clayton, Fayette, Henry and Butts Counties, meeting the emergency needs of those affected by disaster, mostly single family home and apartment fires.

The Fayette CARE Clinic will hold its “Swing into Spring” fund-raiser benefiting the clinic and Fayette County’s medically uninsured at the Glendalough Manor off of Hwy. 74 in Tyrone Friday, April 20. Food, drink, music, dancing and silent and public auction provide the backdrop for an exciting evening.

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

Fayette County Solicitor-General James K. Inagawa is doing some spring cleaning in hopes of cleaning up domestic violence in our county. Inagawa is holding a charity yard sale April 26-27 with all proceeds going to benefit Promise Place, Fayette County’s sole provider of comprehensive services to victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse.

On Saturday, beginning at 5 p.m., Braelinn Elementary School PTO will host “An Evening with the Stars Festival”. The event will benefit the replacing of the school’s 16-year old gym floor.

A group of students from McIntosh High School have put together a Guitar Hero II tournament in an effort to raise money for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in the name of Child’s Play, a charity organization that doantes videogames, toys, movies, etc. to children’s hospitals all over the world.

Fayetteville police are investigating an armed robbery at the Radio Shack at the Hudson Plaza around 3:45 p.m. today.

Last year, the Tour de Georgia raced up Peachtree Parkway on its way through Tyrone and on to Rome.

Probes begin into high-level ‘interference’ in Fayette child abuse charge against 2nd-in-command of Fulton County DFCS

Two annexations that would increase Peachtree City’s population by an estimated 8 percent received a 4-to-0 go-ahead vote from the city’s planning commission Monday night.

Combined, the annexations requested from John Wieland Homes and Levitt and Sons would add nearly 1,200 single-family homes and 2,635 new residents to the city’s west side on two tracts north of the current end of MacDuff Parkway.