Clayton County Public Schools has halted fall sports for two weeks through Aug. 21.... Read more
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A look at major developments related to the coronavirus. Some schools open and see cases right away. Home delivery of liquor is on its way. Read more
There have been 10 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide. Read more
A map of where deaths due to the coronavirus have been reported so far in the U.S., organized by state.
The Mexican consulate in Atlanta is teaming up with Emory University to offer free testing for COVID-19 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, August 8-9. The testing will be offered at the Mexican consulate in Atlanta at 1700 Chantilly Drive NE. Additional testing will be available this weekend and next weekend at predominantly Hispanic churches in Cumming and Warner Robins.
A school district in Springfield, Illinois, has implemented a rule in which students are not allowed to wear pajamas while doing remote learning at home.
For the sixth year in a row the Georgia Press Association awarded Smoke Signals first place for General Excellence in its annual Better Newspaper Contest division. Smoke Signals received a total of 32 awards—20 for advertising and 12 for editorial excellence.
I was in law enforcement for over twelve years. Many things, like the high incarceration rate of black males, have disturbed me about our criminal justice system. But when it came to police brutality, I believed in the “few rotten apples” theory. I understand the pressures police face from a…
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Max Brooks had a massive bestseller on his hands back in 2006 when he wrote that War and Peace of zombie novels, World War Z. The book's title was later used in a Brad Pitt movie that otherwise had virtually nothing in common with the book other than hordes of shambling undead, but millions …
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The action of Matthew Carr's second novel (following 2017's The Devils of Cardona) kicks off in Barcelona in the summer of 1909. It features private detective Harry Lawton, who arrives in the city just in time to be drawn into a series of bizarre killings. Several people have been killed by …
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Jill McCorkle's new novel Hieroglyphics is on one level a quiet, modest story about a battered, durable, loving marriage. Lil and Frank Wishart have been together for years, their long marriage first cemented by the fact that each of them had already been deeply wounded by personal bereaveme…
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A new writer has piqued my curiosity. Well, Lydia Davis is not a new writer, as she has at least 16 books to her credit. Only one of them is a novel, “The End of the Story.” I have not read it and likely will not read it. A brief description of the story made me think it would not hold my interest.
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Union General William Tecumseh Sherman, the subject of history professor Brian Holden Reid’s new book The Scourge of War, has been a controversial figure pretty much since he graduated from West Point in 1840. In the popular imagination, he’s remembered for three things: his firebrand genera…
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