Fayetteville police made three traffic stops over the weekend that resulted in felony drug charges and seizure of a stolen weapon.

The Fayette County School Board will meet April 13 to evaluate and conduct the annual update of the school system’s Five Year Strategic Plan 2007-2012. The 164-page plan will be reviewed by board members with needed updates accompanying presentations by school system department heads.

Two north Fayette residents were arrested April 1 for growing marijuana in their home on Whitetail Court, sheriff’s deputies said.

Fayette Alliance Coordinating Teamwork Outreach and Resources, otherwise known as FACTOR is an organization that is able to bring together diverse people and organizations. It is a community collaborative partnership with a board of directors representing the school system, faith based organizations, local governments, social and civic groups, and non-profit organizations, as well as family members.

Bring Back Those Overdue Books! Fine Amnesty at Fayette County Public Library During National Library Week, April 13-18, 2009

The Fayette County Commission is expected to vote next week to implement a defined benefit pension plan that would provide employees with up to 45 percent of their salary paid monthly upon retirement.

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For some people, it is just their cup of tea. Taxed Enough Already (TEA), that is. Taken from the idea of the Boston Tea Party, residents from Coweta and Fayette counties are making preparations to hold local tea parties in Newnan and Peachtree City at noon on April 15, prior to a similar event later that day on the steps of the Capitol. The rallies mirror those taking place across America on tax day.

A Concord man was arrested Wednesday by Fayetteville Police after he forged a prescription for hydrocodone and returned to the pharmacy after receiving a placebo.

The Fayette County Commission is expected to vote next week to implement a defined benefit pension plan that would provide employees with up to 45 percent of their salary paid monthly upon retirement.

Did girl’s story alone convince jury, or did they convict based on prior offense of child molestation?

For communities like Fayetteville and Peachtree City, being nestled away in southwest metro Atlanta means nothing to a criminal industry that uses the Internet and the U.S. mail system with as much ease as most of us pick up a phone to call a friend.

Susan Voyles has been driving a school bus in Fayette County for over 20 years. That would be a story in itself, but there is one even more interesting.

It was a way for potential victims of a growing type of crime to fight back by being aware of the con. Fayetteville detectives Mike Whitlow and Marvin Vinson last week conducted a presentation on various scams to two groups at Fayette Seniors Center. In all, more than 80 attended the two sessions held March 25.

A Senoia man was charged March 27 with obstruction, cruelty to children and traffic offenses in an altercation with his wife that began at his mother’s home near Redwine Road in Fayetteville and ended on the side of the road a short distance away.

For Nature’s Landscaping owner Phil Jackson, two times is two too many. His Kathi Avenue business in Fayetteville was burglarized over the weekend for the second time in less than a year. Jackson hopes that with even more security features being installed, the second burglary will be the last.

The various agencies and groups that serve children in Fayette County are joining together to combat the phenomenon of drug abuse and violence among youths here.

A Fayette man was acquitted this week of charges that he molested his daughter dating back to 2001 when she was 11 years old.

More than 9,000 elementary school students in Fayette County will participate in the upcoming Fayette Youth Power Parade to raise funds for Fayette Youth Protection Homes.

Fayette sheriff's deputies arrested four men Friday afternoon after they ditched a car on Shamrock Drive near Whitewater High School.

Affected landowners question need for West Fayetteville Bypass

The West Fayetteville Bypass is moving closer to reality, as county officials determine the final alignment and hold meetings with the public and permitting agencies.

Supt. DeCotis says wording being changed to give system more flexibility

Employees of the Fayette County School System, already dealing with voluntary furloughs, school staff reductions and a 4.5 percent pay cut beginning in July, have begun getting nervous about their contracts for the coming year.

A Sharpsburg man was convicted Tuesday of raping a 16-year-old Tyrone girl at her home back in September 2005. He was 17 at the time of the crime, testimony revealed.

A south Fayette woman was sentenced to six months in prison for setting a fire at her home that endangered two of her grandchildren and a third child who was also spending the night.

Last week Fayette residents got an overview of potential transportation improvement projects for future years.

The meeting was hosted as part of a long-range transportation plan being prepared for the county by the Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin consulting firm.

Questions have arisen about the arrest of a man by Fayette County Sheriff’s deputies on Nov. 28 and his subsequent incarceration.

The Fayetteville City Council last week heard the first of two readings of a general fund budget amendment designed to equalize falling revenues from local option sales tax (LOST) dollars and other sources.

The Fayette County Public School System’s After School Program (ASP) will begin registering elementary students for the 2009-2010 school year on March 26.

Fayette sheriff's detectives have determined that a reported armed robbery this morning at the intersection of Kenwood and Longview roads did not occur, officials said.

Mistrial declared on arson charge

A partial mistrial has been declared in the arson case against a south Fayette woman who admitted to setting grease rags afire in her garage Feb. 18, 2008.

A 19-year-old Peachtree City woman tearfully recounted in court today the early August morning when she woke up while being raped by a man in her own bedroom.

The victim identified her attacker and another man who was in the room at the time she woke up in her bedroom at the Harmony Village apartment complex.