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Published 18 hours ago'Love Is All Around' at SCAD's Mary Tyler Moore exhibition
The only one of its kind, this pop-up is a partnership between the fashion brand Frances Valentine and the Mary Tyler Moore Vision Initiative aims to raise awareness of diabetes-related vision loss and blindness.
Cobb County Courier
Published 19 hours ago“My name is Henry. Are you here to adopt me?”
The Cobb County Courier’s Cat of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a male orange tabby domestic long hair. The following information on this potential...
Cobb County Courier
Published 19 hours ago“My name is Daisy, and I’m in need of a loving home!”
The Cobb County Courier’s Dog of the Day, selected from the Cobb Animal Services Shelter website, is a female tri-color spaniel. The following information on this potential family member is...
SaportaReport
Published 19 hours agoHero for Hope: Chris Womack
For more than 35 years, Chris Womack has served in the U.S. energy sector, becoming a visionary leader – meeting surging energy demands, prioritizing reliability for customers, and championing groundbreaking technologies. Outside of the U.S. energy sector, Chris maintains that…
Cobb County Courier
Published 22 hours agoAtlanta Ballet Names Zachary Brown Chief Development Officer, Ushering in New Era of Growth Ahead of Centennial
Seasoned arts and culture leader brings more than 15 years of executive experience in philanthropy, community engagement and organizational growth The Atlanta Ballet distributed the following announcement: The Atlanta Ballet...
GPB News
Published 23 hours agoA new anti-ICE compilation album benefits immigrants rights organizations
The Contra-ICE Vol. 1: ICE OUT album features contributions from over 30 artists, including Kathleen Hanna, Fred Armisen and Tom Morello to create a historical and artistic record of this moment.
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Published September 27Playing 'La Bamba' for an hour? Must be a Mexican fandango!
A 300-year-old Mexican musical tradition is finding new life around the world — one sweaty, joyous, all-night fandango at a time.
SaportaReport
Published 10 hours agoTierra Encantada brings Spanish immersion preschool to Atlanta with plans to expand
A Spanish immersion early childhood education franchise is preparing to open its first Georgia location in Atlanta’s Kirkwood neighborhood, the beginning of a planned 12-center expansion across metro Atlanta. Tierra Encantada, which provides child care and early education from…
Cobb County Courier
Published September 26New Cobb County Business Licenses Issued Sept. 20-27
Cobb County issued 29 new business licenses in unincorporated areas during the Sept. 20-27 reporting period, with the list ranging from restaurants and retailers to contractors, consultants and personal-service businesses....
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Published 50 minutes agoManufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story - Still Worth Looking
Two years after the BioLab fire in Conyers, Georgia, we return to a question that has followed this investigation from the beginning: what were people actually exposed to? You’ll hear why environmental testing for chromium did not specifically look for hexavalent chromium, or…
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Published 1 hour agoOpenAI delays latest model over security concerns, as industry faces pressure
OpenAI's decision to hold back the model, called GPT-6.1 Astra, comes amid a broader push within the industry to slow the development of increasingly autonomous systems until safety measures catch up.
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Published 1 hour agoTennessee is set to execute a woman for the first time in 200 years
One of the youngest women sent to death row is set to be executed in Tennessee. If carried out as scheduled Wednesday, it would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman in 200 years.