A Fayetteville man was arrested Tuesday for causing injury to his infant son. Jamal Thomas, 20, was charged with cruelty to children in the first degree, said Brent Rowan, a spokesman with the Fayette County Sheriff's Office. The injuries inflicted on the 9-week-old boy occurred last Saturday, he said.

The Peachtree City-based Global Aviation Holdings Inc. – the nation’s largest charter air provider for the U.S. military – has filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the company announced. In a news release dated Sunday, the parent of World Airways Inc.

A divisive free speech legal fight involving the nude pictures of a model that were published after she was killed by her husband is surfacing again in federal appeals court in Atlanta. The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday considered whether Hustler Magazine should award nearly $20 million to the family of Nancy Toffolini Benoit.

No charges will be filed in the death of a 6-year-old Fayette County girl who was shot with a pellet gun last week, police said Tuesday. The girl, whose name was not released, died after her older brother accidentally shot her in the throat, according to a police report released Tuesday.

A Fayetteville man is pleading for the return of his infant daughter's ashes that were stolen Sunday. Thieves stole the heart-shaped urn containing the remains of Brian Allen’s daughter while he was at work and his wife and two children were at church, Channel 2 Action News reported Tuesday.

A Fayette County man surrendered to authorities Saturday to face charges in the stabbing death of his wife, the sheriff’s department said. Jesus Ojeda Jimenez, 34, of Fayetteville is accused of killing his wife, Liliana, on Friday at their home on Greenview Circle.

A 6-year-old girl died Friday afternoon after being shot in the throat by a pellet gun in her Fayette County home. The girl, whose name was not released, was in very critical condition when emergency responders arrived at her Peachtree City home in the Planterra Ridge neighborhood shortly before 12:30 p.

Fayetteville police are looking for two men they believe stole two vehicles from the same Wal-Mart parking lot on consecutive days last week. The first theft from Wal-Mart in the Fayette Pavilion came just after 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, according to Fayetteville police Detective Mike Whitlow.

The Great Georgia Airshow, the annual fall event at Peachtree City’s Falcon Field, has been put on hiatus for 2012. In a prepared statement posted on the air show's Facebook page, organizers promised that the show would return in 2013. Held the second weekend of October, the event began in 1998 and in recent years has drawn a crowd of 25,000 over its three-day run.

After a cold Friday of scattered snow flurries, morning lows in the mid-20s and afternoon temperatures that weren’t expected to climb above the low 40s, forecasters are promising sunny and warmer weather for the King Holiday weekend. Channel 2 Action News meteorologist Karen Minton said highs will be in the low 50s Saturday and Sunday and mid-50s on Monday.

Fayetteville police are looking for the two armed men who robbed a cell phone store Thursday morning. According to Fayetteville police Capt. Steve Crawshaw, two males wearing dark clothes and masks robbed the Verizon Wireless store on Promenade Parkway shortly after 9 a.

Lingering showers in extreme North Georgia overnight will give way to cooler conditions, with a wind advisory for the metro Atlanta area and a winter weather advisory for areas to the north Thursday. According to Channel 2 Action News meteorologist David Chandley, Thursday will see breaks in the clouds and windy conditions after 10 a.

A quick-thinking sheriff’s deputy was able to get a car stopped without any children being injured Wednesday after a Fayette County motorist suffered a seizure in a school zone. Fayette sheriff’s Capt. David Moorman told the AJC that Deputy Tom Mindar was directing traffic outside Whitewater Middle School on Ga.

The Fayette County Board of Education has agreed to settle its part of an NAACP lawsuit challenging the county's voting process that the civil right group says has kept blacks from serving on the school board and county commission. Under the consent decree adopted by the school board Monday night, candidates for school board will now be elected from five equally populated single-member districts.

The motorcyclist killed early Saturday on Ga. 279 in Fayette County was identified Monday as Donnolley A. Reid of Jonesboro. According to Fayette sheriff's Major Bryan Woodie, Reid was operating a 2009 Honda southbound on Ga. 279 near Ga. 314 just after 5 a.

A senior pastor at a north Fayette County church and one of his members have been arrested and charged with stealing $30,000 from their congregation, authorities said. Kenneth Robinson and Alexis Dodson, both of Fayetteville, fled Georgia in October and were apprehended Sunday in Pennsylvania by agents of the U.

Fayette Middle School has been named a National Title I Distinguished School. Title I is the largest federally funded program for pre-college education, providing more than $15 billion annually to schools and districts for supplemental programs to aid economically disadvantaged students.

Metro Atlanta’s vote on a $6.14 billion list of regional transportation projects is not until next year, but its impact is being felt now by elected officials being challenged for supporting the plan. That support, specifically for the mass transit portion that accounts for more than half the project list, already has played a key role in unseating one of the officials of the 21-member roundtable that drafted the final project list.

The National Weather Service confirmed Friday that the storms that pummeled North Georgia the day before contained three tornadoes – the strongest of them up to a half-mile wide as it plowed 15 miles through Gordon County. At least seven people, most of them in the Rome area, suffered minor injuries in the storms.

The leader of a popular country music band based in Atlanta won a zoning change Thursday night from the Fayette County Board of Commissioners to let him build a seasonal camp for special needs children. The plan had encountered opposition from some neighbors concerned over traffic and noise, Channel 2 Action News reports.

Almost everyone on staff at Piedmont Fayette Hospital in Fayetteville – about 900 employees total – have been treated as a precautionary measure against an outbreak of scabies, Channel 2 Action News reports. Scabies is a contagious skin rash caused by a microscopic mite that burrows into the top layers of human skin, where it lays eggs that hatch.

One was caught sleeping with a public defender. Another touched the bottoms of a county prosecutor and investigator. Another was accused of tipping off the targets of an undercover FBI investigation. Since the beginning of 2010, these judges and several others have been bounced from the bench — either because they were ordered to leave or resigned in the face of the inevitable.

A Peachtree City man facing a child pornography charge turned himself in to authorities at the Fayette County Jail on Tuesday. David Gordon Moll, 56, is charged with one count of sexual exploitation of children, the GBI announced. Pornographic images of children allegedly were discovered on Moll's computer when the GBI's Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and Peachtree City police executed a search warrant on Oct.

This guy went through a whole heap of trouble for two cases of beer. Fayette County police are looking for a man who shot the front display window out of a BP gas station on Corinth Road at Hwy. 54 in east Fayette County early Tuesday, and stole two cases of beer.

Georgia got more good news on the jobs front Thursday. MBM Foodservice, a North Carolina-based food service distributor for national and regional restaurant chains, plans to open a food distribution facility in Newnan and create 108 jobs. Hiring is expected to start in the first quarter of 2012.