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Melissa Ruggieri has covered music and entertainment for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution since 2010 and created the Atlanta Music Scene blog. She's kept vampire hours for more than two decades and remembers when MTV was awesome.
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Snellville’s BoykinZ on ‘America’s Got Talent’ lassoes country girl group vibe
Country music lately has been largely generating solo artists, not groups, much less a group made up of Black women. But now there is The BoykinZ.
Bookshelf: 7 new Southern books for your fall reading list
A posthumous collection of fiction and nonfiction by Harper Lee is among the offerings.
Longtime Fish morning hosts Kevin & Taylor are moving to Star 94
Kevin Avery & Taylor Scott, who were morning hosts for the now-defunct Christian station the Fish for 25 years, have landed a new job at secular pop station Star 94.
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South Korean nationals detained in Georgia’s Hyundai raid to be released
Only "some administrative procedures remain" before the South Korean nationals arrested Thursday in Georgia will be released, according to a South Korean official.
Trump’s tax law boosts safety net for farmers, but tariff uncertainty lingers
President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" bolsters farm subsidies, but uncertainty over tariffs could undermine some of those benefits.
Winning tickets sold in Powerball jackpot as 4 Georgia players earn $100K
A player in Missouri and another in Texas will share the $1.79 billion Powerball prize, the second largest in Powerball history.