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

A teenager was arrested Friday afternoon after he shot his girlfriend during an argument at a north Fayette residence, police said.

Suspect injured after hitting other car head-on

A motorcyclist led sheriff’s deputies on a brief chase Friday afternoon, attempting twice to take out the lead pursuit vehicle, which happened to be driven by Fayette County Sheriff Randall Johnson, police said.

Developer Tom Reese’s vision for eastern Coweta County staggers the imagination. His proposed McIntosh new community features more than 3,100 homes and a commercial center that will be pedestrian-oriented and look more like Destin Commons on the Florida Gulf coast than the Fayette Pavilion.

With a little design work left to finish and grass to grow — so two golf holes can be relocated — there’s little left to stand in the way of construction beginning for the extension of TDK Boulevard from the Peachtree City industrial park into undeveloped sections of eastern Coweta County.

It was a case where the officer said he was doing his job, and the homeowner said it was excessive. During the Aug. 21 incident, a 12-year-old dog in its accustomed place on its back porch was shot in the mouth during an attempt by Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies to serve a warrant at a Fayetteville residence on a man already in the Fayette County Jail.

Let me tell you about the birds and the bees. Many have vanished or are dying in north Fayette and south Fulton.

Let me tell you about the dogs and the cats. Many are sick and dying and refusing to go outdoors in north Fayette and south Fulton.

Shut the Philip Services Corp. waste treatment plant down for good, says the Fayette County Commission.

Elected officials were joined by North Fayette Community Association, calling for a definitive resolution to the chemical release into communities that has sickened nearly 600 residents of north Fayette and south Fulton counties.

Fayette County school officials jubilantly released the school system’s Scholastic Aptitude Test scores Tuesday.

Fayette’s district-wide score of 1555 was third in the state for districts that had more than one high school. Only Cherokee County with a score of 1565, and Fulton with a 1580 score surpassed Fayette.

Whitewater’s Tavoris Dixon will be one of the Wildcats’ biggest threats on offense.

Levitt and Sons development company has committed to reducing the number of homes it is proposing to have annexed into Peachtree City on the west side.

The Fayette County Water Committee has recommended the Fayette County Commission look into the issue of owning and operating community and drip irrigation sewer systems.

Woman survives shot to the face

A man who shot a woman at a Fayetteville furniture store early Friday morning remained in custody Tuesday at the Fayette County Jail, police said.

A Fayetteville woman was robbed at gunpoint while walking from her car to her home just before midnight Sunday, police said.

The Fayette County Public Library and The Friends of the Library sponsored its second “Letters & Literature” dinner recently, and the honoree was Dr. Ferrol A. Sams, Jr. of Fayetteville.

Fayette County’s School Health Services program is the recipient of Georgia’s 2006 School Walt Orenstein Champion for Immunization Award.

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

Georgia State University Police have arrested a man who shot a Gwinnett woman and opened fire on a Fayetteville police officer in an early-morning shooting Friday in the parking lot of Crumpton’s Furniture, police said.

A proposed development on McIntosh Trail and Stallings Road in Coweta County could send nearly 10,000 people and more than 6,000 cars towards Peachtree City on a daily basis.

A plan submitted to build 3,164 homes on a 1,558-acre parcel across the border of Peachtree City in unincorporated Coweta County doesn’t surprise former Peachtree City Mayor Steve Brown.

Peachtree City’s City Planner is worried about how quickly regional planners will handle a request from two developers to annex and rezone 859 acres and build more than 1,600 homes on the city’s west side ... despite the fact that the City Council hasn’t even voted whether or not to annex the parcels and rezone a third tract necessary for the project.

Peachtree City resident Emily Eagan, 5, takes on the climbing wall at Saturday’s Kidz Fest in Peachtree City.

The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office is issuing a warning to county residents accustomed to using golf carts: Be careful to stay on county roads that have been specially approved for that purpose. (The list is published at the end of this article).

Students will have until Aug. 13 next year to enjoy their summer vacation.

The Fayette County Board of Education voted Monday night to start school a week later than this year. The proposal received the most votes of four options in an online survey and represents the latest date for the opening day of school in several years.

Students at McIntosh High School used to parking for free on Petrol Point will have until Sept. 15 to find a new place to park.

The Fayette County School System’s deadline for students to file an affidavit expired Friday and 140 students were “probably” withdrawn from attending schools.

Residents of Fayette and Fulton counties facing health issues they say were caused by the release of chemicals from the Philips Services Corp. (PSC) plant in Fairburn might have more to be concerned about than they first realized.

Piedmont Fayette Hospital is ready to show off its newly expanded medical campus.

A free community open house Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. will show off the new maternity center as well as the new cardiac catheterization lab and dining room. Visitors will also get a peek at the ongoing expansion of the hospital’s emergency department.

Fayetteville police responded to scene on noise complaint

Two Fayetteville parents were arrested Friday night after police received complaints of a loud party at a home on Running Bear Trail. The home is in the city’s northwest sector, off Hood Avenue.