A former Fayetteville man was convicted Wednesday afternoon of raping and molesting the 15-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend at the north Fayette home they shared.

Fayette election results (all precincts counted)

37 of 38 precincts reporting (including absentees but excluding provisional ballots, which is the 38th precinct)

After being inundated with facts and figures from school administrators, the Fayette County Board of Education could vote on new attendance lines for middle and high schools as early as Nov. 13.

If Mel Gibson made a movie about the unfolding drama concerning the new attendance lines for Fayette’s middle and high schools, he could easily title it “The Passion of the Parents.”

Voters at the Blackrock precinct face a bit of a wait to cast their electronic ballots at one of the six computers at 10 a.m.

With little emotion, a Fayetteville girl calmly recalled in court Monday how her mother’s boyfriend had sex with her in the bedroom of her north Fayette home in March when she was 15 years old.

Don’t start the asphalt machines just yet, but the complicated land deal that will allow TDK Boulevard to be extended from Peachtree City into Coweta County has been consummated.

A commercial developer seeking to acquire a 6.6 acre tract owned by Peachtree City along Ga. Highway 54 West said Thursday the parcel is worth roughly $2.45 million based on the purchase price he recently paid for one parcel next door.

Larry “The Legend” McNeil, a McIntosh graduate and Newnan resident, drinks a large amount of water to stretch his stomach in preparation for a competitive eating contest.

A 13-acre parcel that will feature medical and other office uses on the south side of Peachtree City has been annexed by the Peachtree City Council.

Fayette County Administrator Chris Venice’s paycheck got a little heftier last week, thanks to the Fayette County Commission.

The move to develop one of Fayetteville’s last large tracts for residential use was postponed Nov. 2 when a rezoning request for the Stella Place subdivision on Grady Avenue was tabled until January. Fayetteville City Council voted unanimously for the delay.

Does Fayette County need a new elementary school in 2008?

That’s one of the tough questions the Fayette County Board of Education has wrangled with over the the last two weeks during lengthy school board meetings.

Few details released; no arrests yet

A federal investigation targeting illegal activity at Internet pharmacies has led authorities to investigate one business in Fayette County, officials said Monday.

County Commissioner Robert Horgan is inviting Fayette County’s citizens to meet him for coffee November 18, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at Fire Station No.1, located on Ga. Highway 279 in north Fayette County. He would like constituents to drop by so he can talk with them about their views on the county and to answer questions about current issues and problems.

Unforgettable, imaginative and fun are just a few adjectives students at Starr’s Mill High use to describe their U.S. History teacher Jon Gloer.

The Fayette County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) will hold election of officers and the executive Board for 2007 through 2008 November 11. The election process will take place at Flat Rock AME Church located at 148 Old Chapel Lane, just off Highway 54 and Huiet Road, from 2 p.m.-6 p.m. All current members of the Fayette County NAACP are requested to please come out to the monthly meeting also scheduled on that day at Flat Rock beginning at 4 p.m.

The Whitewater Middle School Symphonic Band, under the direction of Bill Melton, has been selected to perform at the 2006 Southeastern United States Middle School Concert Band Clinic at Troy State University in Troy, Alabama.

Kedron Elemenatry School will be the site of an American Red Cross blood drive Nov. 12 from noon untl 5 p.m.. The school is located at 200 Kedron Drive in Peachtree City.

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

A former 12th-grader at Whitewater High School has pled guilty to bringing four guns, a sword and a knife on school property on the first day of school back in August.

A man police were seeking in connection with a Fayetteville kidnapping case has turned himself in to authorities, police said.

Fayetteville Police are looking for a jewelry thief with expensive tastes who purloined an $8,000 ring from a local store Saturday, Oct. 21.

The unidentified suspect stole the ring while pretending to be a customer at the Friedman’s Jewelry Store at the Fayette Pavilion, police said. After the sales clerk handed him one of several rings he asked to see, the suspect ran from the store and left the area in a silver passenger car, police said.

Fayetteville police are hunting for Mac Arthur Prayor, 36, as a suspect in multiple felonies in connection with the Oct. 23 abduction of a former girlfriend.

The Fayetteville woman was kidnapped shortly after 1 a.m. at knifepoint from her residence on Meadowbrook Court by Prayor, her ex-boyfriend, police said.

Minutes before she allegedly shot and killed her ex-husband at the NCR plant in Peachtree City Thursday afternoon, April Ulrich visited her daughter at Huddleston Elementary, pulling the child out of class and leaving a plastic zipper bag containing wedding rings in the 6-year-old’s book-bag, The Citizen has learned from more than one source familiar with the situation.

Smile, Fayetteville: Red light cameras may be in your driving future.

The Fayetteville City Council wants to study possible placement of a traffic camera at an intersection that would photograph motorists who run red lights. Police Chief Steve Heaton presented details of the Redflex Camera System.

As the Fayette County School System struggles with redrawing attendance lines and other growing pains, a proposed development in the center of the county could cause them nightmares.

Lindsay Ratcliffe and members of the Peachtree City School of Dance entertain crowds Oct.

Newly released plans to build a large shopping center on the south side of Ga. Highway 54 west are of such a scale that the development would have been forbidden under Peachtree City’s old big box ordinance.

After last week’s marathon session involving new school boundary lines, Assistant Superintendent for Operations Sam Sweat is reviewing all the comments, e-mails and phone calls from concerned parents who are beseeching the board to adjust the lines.