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News Articles: Rome

Brody Malone is interviewed by Berry College President Sandeep Mazumder on March 3, 2026. Berry hosted the Olympic gymnast and Rockmart native as part of the Cecil B. Wright III Integrity in Leadership Lecture Series. Photo by Brant Sanderlin/Berry College

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Olympic-winning gymnast and Rockmart native Brody Malone speaks at Berry College

On Tuesday, Olympic bronze medalist and Rockmart, Ga., native Brody Malone spoke at Berry College as a guest lecturer.

March 04, 2026
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  • GPB News Staff
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Georgia Today: Atlanta United 2026 season; Funding for mental health hospital; Trump visit

On the Feb 20th edition: Atlanta United kicks off the 2026 season tomorrow; Georgia lawmakers are seeking funding to build a new mental health hospital; President Trump visited Northwest Georgia yesterday. His speech touched on tariffs, the upcoming Congressional race, and the 2020 election.

February 20, 2026
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya and
  • Mark Davenport
 President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Supreme Court strikes down on tariffs one day after Trump promotes economy during Georgia visit

The U.S. Supreme Court says that President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs are illegal. The day before the ruling, the president visited a steel company in Rome to promote his tariff policies.

February 20, 2026
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  • Sarah Kallis
 President Donald Trump arrives to speak at Coosa Steel Corporation in Rome, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Trump visits Georgia, a target of his election falsehoods, as Republicans look for midterm boost

The White House has insisted that President Donald Trump was visiting Georgia to promote the economy. But he raised the prospect of voter fraud and talked up his plan to require voter ID. Trump was visiting the congressional district previously represented by Marjorie Taylor Greene.

February 20, 2026
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  • Associated Press and
  • Sarah Kallis

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Georgia Today:President Trump in Rome; DHS shares facility details; Mental health insurance coverage

On the Feb. 19 edition: President Donald Trump visits Rome, GA; DHS has shared details of the new ICE facility in Social Circle; and state legislators want to ensure insurance companies cover the mental health care they're legally required to.

February 19, 2026
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  • Chase McGee
October 3, 2025 October 3, 2025 Berry College student Bo Smith-Wysong and professor Martin Cipollini collect chestnuts. American Chestnut Project. Students and faculty collect chestnuts from the Berry orchard. Photo by Brant Sanderlin/Berry College.

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Georgia scientists say genetic analysis could greatly speed restoration of iconic American chestnut

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests. The tree was functionally extinct by the 1950s because of a fungal blight and root rot. 

February 13, 2026
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  • Associated Press and
  • GPB News Staff
From left: first lady, best in show, Milo — or is that Tina?

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  • National

What does the CIA not want you to know? The quiz has the secret

Plus: ambiguous mascots, rodents with hard-to-spell names, and three boring photos of buildings.

February 06, 2026
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By:
  • Holly J. Morris
 Jerusha Hess and her filmmaking husband Jered Hess are behind the enduring legacy of their breakout film, 2004's "Napoleon Dynamite."

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'Napoleon Dynamite' filmmaker to be honored at Rome International Film Festival

Jerusha Hess talks about her professional partnership with her filmmaking husband Jered Hess and the enduring legacy of their breakout film.

November 06, 2025
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  • Orlando Montoya
The Rome Symphony Orchestra will perform composer John Williams' score for the film 'Star Wars' Sept. 12 to 14 , 2025.

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Across the state, Georgia's symphony orchestras promise American favorites and new works this fall

From Rome to Valdosta, Augusta to Savannah, Macon, Atlanta and beyond, GPB's City Café host John Lemley joins Kristi York Wooten to preview highlights of Georgia's symphony orchestra concert season, which kicks off this weekend. 

September 11, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten and
  • John Lemley
The remains of Carlo Acutis have rested since April 6, 2019, in the Sanctuary of the Spoliation in St. Mary Major Church in Assisi, inside a sepulchral monument in the right nave. The body, after being transferred from its previous burial in a cemetery, was prepared through preservation techniques to be displayed to the faithful, who come to venerate him in this important place of worship.

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A teen nicknamed 'God's influencer' has become the first millennial saint

Carlo Acutis, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006, is known in the Catholic Church as "God's influencer" for harnessing technology to spread the word about miracles.

September 07, 2025
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  • Ruth Sherlock
New wave icon Howard Jones performs at Atlanta Symphony Hall on Sept. 3, 2025 with opening acts Haircut 100 and Richard Blade.

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Fall arts preview: What's on in Atlanta, from Balanchine to Basquiat, Star Wars to Stereolab

School’s back in session, and the fall cultural season is here. GPB’s Kristi York Wooten previews upcoming art, dance, theatre and music events in Metro Atlanta and beyond.

August 22, 2025
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  • Kristi York Wooten
Ford Hall at Berry College.

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Travel + Leisure mag names 2 Georgia schools among 'Most Beautiful College Campuses'

Travel + Leisure named Georgia colleges, Berry College in Rome and the University of Georgia in Athens, in its list of the "30 Most Beautiful College Campuses in the U.S."

July 14, 2025
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  • GPB News Staff and
  • Ambria Burton

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  • Music

Immerse yourself in the music of Rome with this World Cafe mixtape

From Ennio Morricone to Italian psychedelic rock, this World Cafe playlist features music from the show's latest Sense of Place series.

June 20, 2025
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  • Miguel Perez
My family recently unearthed dozens of letters from clearly smitten servicemen who'd met my Mom at Red Cross dances in Rome in the final months of World War II.

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  • History

Discovering a mom we never knew, in letters she saved from WWII soldiers

My sister and I recently unearthed a forgotten box of correspondence our mom received from servicemen she'd met at Red Cross dances in Rome near the end of the war. She would have been 100 this year.

May 08, 2025
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  • Bob Mondello
Canadian Cardinal Thomas Christopher Collins (right) and Cardinal Francis Leo walk on Via della Conciliazione street near the Vatican, with St. Peter's Basilica in the background, in Rome on Monday.

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The conclave to choose a new pope is about to begin

As more than a billion Catholics around the world await the election of a new pope, all eyes will be on the Sistine Chapel, where 133 cardinals will begin the secretive process known as a conclave.

May 06, 2025
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  • Daniel Burke and
  • Bill Chappell
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