Mr. Oscar B. (O.B.) Harper, a longtime resident of College Park, Ga., passed away Jan, 25, 2012 at the age of 91.

O.B. was a World War II veteran serving in the Army Infantry. After the war, he was employed by the United States Postal Service. He retired from the Post Office after many years of service.

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Mr. Arnold (Arnie) Shaw of Peachtree City passed away Jan. 24, 2012.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Eva Wickens Shaw and is survived by his daughter, Brenda Shaw of Peachtree City; Linda Gilberg and her husband Richard of Lynn, MA; sons, Bill Shaw and his wife Donna of Peachtree City; Stephen Shaw and his wife Nancy of Tewksbury, M...Read More

Mildred Wells, 92, passed away Jan. 16, 2012. Born in 1919, Mildred grew up in the small community of Knoxville, Mo., the daughter of a farmer who raised hogs and grew corn and other crops.

She and her sister rode a pony to a one-room schoolhouse each day, and their Dad built a small shed to shelter the pony at the school during cold wint...Read More

Whether they recognize it or not, everyone has moments of clarity in their lives. One of the first I can remember was in Old Mrs. Crabtree’s third-grade class at Mt. Olive Elementary School.

• Bad people do bad things.

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From a recent article in the Newnan Times-Herald, Newnan, Ga.: “It is not wise to have photos of nude or scantily clad women on your phone, especially if your girlfriend will find them. But such was the case this weekend. And that ended up with the man and his girlfriend both being arrested on battery charges and ending up at the Coweta County J...Read More

The Fayette County School System is currently working off of a b...Read More

We’ve seen the zombies take over parts of Coweta County as AMC’s “The Walking Dead” filmed episodes of their second season in the area. Fans of that show and the horror genre in general will take over the Wyndham Peachtree Conference Center in Peachtree City for a weekend in March (9-11) when Days of the Dead comes to town.

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Fayette County officials may challenge the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to declare the county an ozone “non-attainment area” for air quality standards.

Filing the challenge will cost $35,000, but if the county wins, it would relieve existing and potential businesses of various regulatory burdens

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Tears trickled down my daughter’s face. She stood in front of me, shoulders slumped and her head down, as she admitted to something that I already knew she had done. The admission was from the heart and it wasn’t coerced. She was truly penitent. That little nine-year-old is an adult now, but I still remember my struggle as I tried to decide what...Read More

Millions of people are visually impaired or legally blind. Low Vision services can...Read More

Coweta County has weathered the economic storms of the past few years better than most of her neighbors and is poised to make strides when the economy improves.

That was the central message Dr. Joey Smith, associate professor of economics at the University of West Georgia, brought to the Newnan Rotary Club on Friday. Smith spoke during...Read More

A truck driver was found guilty Friday of hit-and-run in a 2010 accident on Interstate 85 that also injured a sheriff's deputy.

A Coweta County State Court jury deliberated almost eight hours before finding Michael Ray Derrosett, 36, of West Virginia, guilty of the hit-and-run charge, as well as failure to maintain lane and violation o...Read More

Construction will begin this week in Newnan for a new rehabilitation facility, Ansley Park Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Ansley Park will be located at 450 Newnan Lakes Blvd. The facility is being developed by Ethica Health and Retirement Communities, the Macon firm that also operates Avalon Health and Rehabilitation and Newnan Hea...Read More

Cowetans can expect to see more foreclosures in coming months.

Dr. Joey Smith, associate professor of economics at the University of West Georgia, told the Newnan Rotary Club on Friday that the issues affecting the housing market are longterm and deep -- and that a new round of foreclosures is likely.

Local citizens offered suggestions about future uses for the Howard Warner School building in Newnan Thursday night during a meeting at Zion Hill Baptist Church on Pinson Street.

The meeting was organized by a volunteer citizen committee appointed by Newnan City Council and charged with recommending uses for the facility.

A knife is no match for a shotgun.

James Arthur Coalson III, 35, is charged with pulling a knife on another man. That other man then went into his house and grabbed a shotgun.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- A U.S. citizen kidnapped by gunmen in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta has been freed after a week in captivity, the U.S. Embassy said Friday.

U.S. Embassy spokeswoman Deb MacLean told The Associated Press that the man had been released after being kidnapped in Warri in Delta state on Jan. 20. MacLean declined t...Read More

A Coweta County State Court jury began deliberations Thursday in a case involving a truck driver charged in a hit-and-run on Interstate 85 that injured a sheriff's deputy.

A verdict in the three-day trial that began this week was expected late Thursday or today.

In just its first year of competition, the Moreland Elementary School-based GYSTC Explorers robotics team will head to Georgia Tech Saturday to compete in the state First Lego League tournament.

"Food Factor Challenge" involves a team-built, programmed and operated Lego Mindstorm robot that completes as many set tasks as possible withi...Read More

By Walter C. Jones

Morris News Service