Newnan News

Newnan marked America's Independence Day with style, capping off a day of festivities with a patriotic parade and community celebration.

Newnan is continuing with city-wide street and sidewalk improvements to make the City of Homes more attractive and more cohesive for motorists and pedestrians.

Just before 8 a.m. Saturday, the train zipped through Moreland. As the cars flashed through the town, vendors for the Puckett Station Arts and Crafts Festival arranged their wares.

Ken Malcome, an ESPNU 150 Watch List running back from Southwest DeKalb , has accepted a scholarship offer from the Bulldogs over Florida.

Mrs. Virginia C. Weber of Fayetteville passed away June 28, 2009. Master Levi Abernathy by Master Levi Abernathy, born June 15, 2009, passed away July 1, 2009.

Newnan's most famous country music singer Alan Jackson is no stranger when it comes to receiving awards.

Billie Jane McIntosh, a great-great-great-granddaughter of Chief William McIntosh, will be in Coweta County -- named in his honor as chief of the Cowetas -- Wednesday.

The total number of failed banks this year now stands at 45. The day's activities cost the FDIC's deposit fund $264.2 million.

A dog that was declared potentially dangerous in January has now been euthanized.

The deadline is 5 p.m. Friday for applications to compete in Main Street Newnan's July 4 Homemade Ice Cream Festival.

Authorities arrested 17-year-old Reginald Lee Washington Jr. Friday afternoon for allegedly robbing a pizza delivery man at gunpoint Sunday night, and a second suspect -- Demario Arnold -- was arrested for harboring Washington.

Regulators have shut down Community Bank of West Georgia, marking the 41st failure this year of a federally insured bank.

While filming for "Drop Dead Diva" continues around the Atlanta metro area, Lifetime Television crews will not be filming scenes this week near downtown Newnan as originally planned.

Senoia and Newnan are "standing on their own" when it comes to attracting new movie and TV shows to the area, RiverWood Studios President Scott Tigchelaar said.

Authorities have identified and are searching for a suspect they believe robbed a pizza delivery man south of Newnan Sunday night at gunpoint.

A Columbus woman was killed Monday in a vehicle crash on Interstate 85 south of Exit 41 at Moreland, and a related crash resulted in motor oil from a truck engine being spilled on the interstate.

Coweta County Development Authority Chairman David Brown called the announcement that Cancer Treatment Centers of America is coming to Newnan a "big win" for Coweta County.

A contract for the widening of the busy Ga. Hwy. 34 Bypass between Bullsboro Drive and Carrollton Highway has been awarded.

Officials at Piedmont Newnan Hospital said the decision by Cancer Treatment Centers of America to locate a new regional cancer treatment facility in Newnan does not affect their plans to proceed with the construction of the new Piedmont Newnan Hospital.

Cancer Treatment Centers of America has selected Newnan as the site of a proposed cancer treatment hospital that will serve patients all over the Southeast and provide more than 500 new jobs.