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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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Relapse Theatre to be revived in Old Fourth Ward
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A 30-year-old’s overdose sparked a new law. Now courts are testing how far it can go.
Austin’s Law, passed in 2024, is leading to convictions of fentanyl dealers after a father’s fight for justice following his son’s overdose death.
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Search for inmate who escaped from Grady hospital enters second day
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