Deputies investigating 2 similar incidents

A Fayette man has been arrested in connection with the assault of a prostitute early Monday morning, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

‘TEA Party’ result of frustration at federal government

A larger than expected crowd packed City Hall Plaza in Peachtree City at lunchtime Wednesday for a rally to protest against rampant spending by the federal government.

Atlanta resident and former Fayette County resident Brandon Patton is back home. Reported missing since early April after not showing up in Tampa to take his 3 year-old daughter on vacation, Patton provided few clues about his absence. Patton has worked for two years as executive chef at the Hollingsworth House in Fayetteville.

A minor traffic violation was going to lead to just a warning for a moving truck driver on north Jeff Davis Drive in Fayetteville around 5 p.m. this afternoon.

Alcan Packaging of Peachtree City was honored today with the top state award for medium-sized manufacturers.

The company, which employs 160 people and had revenues of $80 million last year, was recognized at a luncheon for Georgia Manufacturing Appreciation Week.

NCR unveiled the first phase of its newly-renovated facility Monday afternoon, but the company’s expansion is already paying dividends.

The company has added about 100 new hires since October as it undertakes an expansion to its parts distribution center and its customer service department in Peachtree City. NCR plans to hire an additional 150-200 people later this year, officials said, ramping up to an eventual total of 610 new jobs in Peachtree City by December 2010.

A survey in January showed at least 52 homeless people subsist somewhere in Fayette County, 40 of them children.

Of these, the majority were homeless due to domestic violence, illness, foreclosure, or drug and alcohol abuse. Another factor cited was substandard housing, where there was no water or heat at the former residences.

Activists say river faces more than just threat from future dams

The 350-mile Flint River — the stream that defines about two-thirds of Fayette County’s eastern border — made environmental headlines last week with the release of a report by American Rivers on the nation’s most endangered river systems.

Former Fayette County Administrator Christine Venice has filed a federal lawsuit against the county, alleging that she was asked to resign in April 2007 because of her gender.

The Fayetteville City Council April 16 is expected to decide on a bid for a sidewalk project along Ga. Highway 54 and consider a state loan application that could lead to bringing additional city water wells into service.

Fayette County employees will now have a guaranteed retirement pension so long as they can make at least five years service with the county.

The Fayette County School System is looking to take advantage of today’s lower interest rates by sending out a request for qualification (RFQ) on the 1999 bond series that carries an average coupon interest rate of 4.66 percent. Board members April 13 approved the measure.

Questions have arisen over possible sightings of Fayetteville’s Hollingsworth House chef Brandon Patton, missing since April 2 when he left his Atlanta home to visit his 3-year-old daughter in Tampa.

A staple in the restaurant business in Palmetto is opening a second location in Fayetteville. Frank’s at the Old Mill on Lake Bennett is expected to open its doors in the next couple of months.

Fayette County’s World War II veterans are dying at the rate of one a week, and a local organization is racing to honor as many as they can in their time remaining.

A Fairburn woman was charged with cruelty to children April 11 after her 3-year-old son was found in Stevie B’s Pizza’s parking lot while the mother was visiting a nearby business.

A Fayetteville man died Sunday evening after his motorcycle rear-ended a car on County Line Road near Plantation Parkway in southeast Fayette, sheriff's deputies said.

Six people were arrested early Friday morning as multiple units of the Fayette County Sheriff's Office raided four homes in the Shiloh Mobile Home Park on the eastern border of Peachtree City, officials said.

Fayette County employees will now have a guaranteed retirement pension so long as they can make at least five years service with the county.

The defined benefit pension plan was approved tonight by the Fayette County Commission on a 3-1-1 vote to select GEBCorp as the plan administrator. Voting for the plan were commissioners Jack Smith, Robert Horgan and Lee Hearn. Voting no was Herb Frady and abstaining was Eric Maxwell, who said he supported the pension plan but didn’t approve of the vendor that was selected.

Suspect arrested immediately after crash

A woman running from Union City police crashed her car head-on into an unmarked sheriff's detective's SUV on Gingercake Road west of Fayetteville as she tried to evade a swarm of police on her trail this afternoon.

A young boy strapped into a car seat in the back of the car suffered minor injuries and was taken to Scottish Rite hospital in Atlanta as a precaution, officials said.

Brandon Patton has worked for two years as executive chef at the Hollingsworth House in Fayetteville. He has been missing since the night of April 2 when he left for Tampa to pick up his 3-year-old daughter for a vacation.

A former resident of Fayette County now living in Atlanta, Patton began the journey to pick up his young daughter from her mother’s home in Tampa, said Hollingsworth House co-owner Belinda Fitch.

Approximately 3,500 Fayette County property owners — 23 times the usual yearly number — want their properties re-assessed.

The Fayette County Commission agreed Wednesday to develop the West Fayetteville bypass as a two-lane, limited access road to preserve its original intent ... to move traffic.

Tommi Ahvala, a two-time world champion stunt rider, performs during Dixieland Amusement Park’s opening weekend activities. The Fayetteville park is open all week for spring break and recently announced a number of additions and enhancements at the park. For more on Dixieland, click here. Photo/Michael Boylan.

With county reservoirs back to healthy levels and a 300-plus day supply of fresh water on hand, Fayette County officials will ask the Georgia Environmental Protection Division to ease drought restrictions for local residents and businesses.

A federal program designed to help dispose of foreclosed homes may be available only to a small geographic section of northern Fayette County.

Thursday night the Fayette County Commission is expected to vote on offering a defined benefit pension retirement plan for county employees.

Nearly a dozen south Fayette residents met April 6 with Georgia Department of Transportation (DOT) District Engineer Mike England and Fayette County Public Works Director Phil Mallon to talk about putting a traffic light and turn lanes where Ga. Highway 85 South intersects Bernhard Road and later, potentially, at Harp Road.

The Fayetteville City Council April 2 voted unanimously to adopt a $263,211 amendment to the general fund budget brought on largely by decreasing sales tax revenues. The city has seen a decrease of more than 8 percent in Local Option Sales Tax (LOST) in the past year.

Fayetteville police made a total of 14 arrests and issued 29 citations in two late night road safety checks last weekend.