1. State authorities raid Gladys Knight's Chicken and Waffles.  The Georgia Department of Revenue has raided Gladys Knight's Chicken and Waffles. {Read here}

2. Report: Some Georgia colleges are 'dropout factories'.  Many of Georgia's private, nonprofit colleges are failing students, with many of them not graduating, earning low wages and unable to pay their student loans. {Read here}

3. Music Midtown lineup includes The Killers, Beck, Twenty One Pilots for 2016 festival.  The anticipated fall festival returns to Atlanta's Piedmont Park Sept 17-18 with a lineup primed to cultivate a younger crowd.  {Read here}

4.  3,300 cases of beer stolen from Atlanta brewery.  Two trailers that contained 3,272 cases of beer were taken from SweetWater Brewing Company on Ottley Drive, a company spokeswoman said. {Read here}

5.  Nathan Deal on Vice President rumor: "Ha!"  Gov. Nathan Deal had a rather non-political answer to the rumor that surfaced this week that Donald Trump was courting him as a running mate. {Read here}