How a faith-based Georgia bank allegedly ran a $140 million Ponzi scheme for years
Credits: AJC | First Liberty Building & Loan | Northern District of Georgia | Brant Frost V/Facebook | The Macon Telegraph
Georgia's bizarre laws that still exist in 2025
Credits: AJC|Akyurt;Miroshnichenko;Kindel;Pickarick;Kelly;Shimazaki;Bolovtsova/Pexels|Wikipedia|Getty|georgia.gov|Prelinger|Pixabay|LOC|Flickr|Areeba Hussain/YT
A 1907 AJC newspaper contains what looks like the original Facebook feed
Credits:AJC|Getty|Dunbar|Prelinger Archives|Davis|Murphy|U.S. Army|Blake|calebu2/YT|Goldsmith|Social Creatures|Nature Human Behaviour|Cottonbro & various/Pexels
Smuggled animals get a second life at Atlanta's zoo and aquarium
When exotic animals are confiscated at the Atlanta airport, where do they go? Sources: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
The behind the scenes world of catching smuggled animals at the airport
Over 50,000 smuggled animals entered the U.S. in the last decade. Credit: AJC|NPR|@TSA_Northeast/X|“The Terminal"/DreamWorks Pictures|U.S. FWS||Georgia Aquarium
Chaos unfolds on MARTA escalator after Beyoncé’s Atlanta concert
Chaos broke out on an escalator at Atlanta’s Vine City MARTA station after a Beyoncé concert, leaving at least 11 people injured. Credits: MARTA passenger
Andrew Young shares how Atlanta built the world's busiest airport
Andrew Young talks with AJC’s Andrew Morse about how Atlanta’s airport became the world’s busiest — and the funding that made it possible.
Daytime fireball stuns Georgians as meteor leaves rare space debris
Credit: AJC|Covington-Newton 911|Henry Co. 911/Emerg. Mgt.|Anna Sparks|Josh Grant|AMS|Brannon H|David & Anita Roche|Alicia Gray Loughner|NASA|NEXLAB/COD|NOAA|
Atlanta is one of the loneliest U.S. cities. What can we do about that?
Credits: Prelinger Archives|Getty|Chamber of Commerce|The Atlanta Voice|U.S. Census Bureau|Axios|Pew Research|The New Yorker|Research Gate|Taylor & Francis
The biggest ICE detention center in the U.S. will be built in Georgia
Credits: AJC | GEO Group | OpenAerialMap | DHS OIG | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | NPR | AP | Getty | Global Detention Project | TRACE