Fayetteville News

While the nation watched thousands of soldiers march in a ticker-tape parade honoring U.S. forces just home from Operation Desert Storm in 1991, a funeral director from Plains Township saw something more personal.

Ken Harris, 31, of Fayetteville weighed 271 pounds at the beginning of his weight loss journey.

A downtown business owner has asked Fayetteville leaders to relax regulations on signs and on alcohol sales, saying it would help his restaurant, but, moreover, attract new businesses.

By adapting to tremendous changes in finances over the past few years, the city of Fayetteville is fiscally sound, according to the annual audit, presented at Thursday's city council meeting.

Members of Greek organizations in the National Pan-Hellenic Council are celebrating Black History Month by focusing on African-American leaders from the past, present and future.

Thieves broke into a Fayetteville home and got away with expensive electronics and something far more valuable to one family, an urn filled with their newborn's ashes.

Larry Graves has operated the Olde Courthouse Tavern, a restaurant in Fayetteville, for nearly a year and said he's never had any issues with the city until he hung two flags out front.

An Eastern box turtle in hibernation has just been covered with a protective layer of leaves after having the radio transmitter battery replaced .

Sometimes I feel like all I do is drive all over the place. This is a pretty big circuit.

Customers of the bank were notified by mail a month before the Fayetteville branch office closed Jan.

Frank Campbell Pierce of Riverdale, died Thursday, January 26, 2012 at the age of 83.

Clients who drive up to the front door of the State Bank & Trust located 655 N Jeff Davis Drive in Fayetteville today won't be getting in the door.

The annual financial audit, Italian food, the hotel/motel tax and burglar alarms fill out a light slate of items the Fayetteville City Council will consider at its meeting Thursday night.

Jack Harold Blair, 79, passed away Friday, January 27, 2012 at Embracing Hospice, Cumming.

Ten years have come and gone, and they're still on fire. Members of Mt. Zion Outreach Ministries in Glennville, under the Rev.

Carolyn Faye Croft, of Fayetteville, passed away on January 17, 2012. She is survived by her husband of 50 years Thomas Roy Croft, her daughter Pamela Rader and her son Buddy Croft of Fayetteville, her daughter and son-in-law Michelle and Charles Ziervogel of Gales Ferry, Conn., her grandchildren Khrystle Rader of Cassleberry, Fla., Johnathon Rader ... (more)

Clarine Zelma Darley, 88, of Fayetteville, passed away on Wednesday, January 18, 2012.

January 26 Dixie Wing Bingo on Thursdays, at 7:00 p.m., at the Commemorative Air Force - Dixie Wing Hangar at Atlanta Regional Airport - Falcon Field, , 1200 Echo Court in Peachtree City.

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. - A Georgia father is pleading with whoever stole an urn that held his newborn daughter's ashes to return it to the family.