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Dr. Kathleen Toomey, Georgia's public health commissioner, speaks about the coronavirus pandemic during a 2021 press conference as her boss, Gov. Brian Kemp, watches. Toomey fired the top lawyer at the Department of Public Health, who has won a $750,000 settlement from the state over her termination. Curtis Compton / Curtis.Compton@ajc.com”

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State pays $750,000 to lawyer fired by public health agency
Maddox Kilgore, seen here in 2014, who was one of Justin Ross Harris’ trial attorneys, praised the Supreme Court’s ruling to throw out the murder conviction. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Breakdown" returns to the subject of Season 2 and examines how the conviction was successfully challenged. (AJC file)

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‘Breakdown’ Season 2, Ep. 18: ‘Death in a Hot Car; Mistake or Murder?’
November 20, 2014 Atlanta: Technology Square is mixed use area at Fifth and Spring Street that contains Georgia Tech academic buildings, Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, retail and offices. Global consulting group Accenture plans to put a new innovation lab at Tech Square and add 800 jobs through 2020. BRANT SANDERLIN / BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

Georgia Tech hotel hosting conference by election deniers
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When her four-year-old grandson Kawan Ward was unresponsive and feverish one morning in April, Vanessa Ward waited for a Grady ambulance to arrive for over an hour before driving him to Egleston Children’s Hospital near Emory University herself. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Atlanta to start city ambulance service after frustrations mount with Grady EMS
Dr. Jeffrey M. Gallups and his company, Milton Hall Surgical Associates, agreed in December to pay about $3 million to settle a whistleblower lawsuit alleging that the scheme with lab company Next Health bilked government health care programs. Gallups also pleaded guilty last year to a federal criminal charge in connection with the scheme, and in June he was sentenced to three years in federal prison. Gallups is seen here in a video from his "Doc Talk" show.

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Alpharetta doctor sentenced to 3 years in federal prison
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the subject of the second episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Breakdown podcast. Willis is overseeing the investigation of former President Donald Trump and his allies. (Jenni Girtman / AJC file)

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‘Breakdown’ Ep. 2: ‘A force of nature’
Pamela Dixon paid more than $10,000 in protection money as gangs at Pulaski State Prison have threatened her daughter Mary Lewis, who is an inmate there. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Ossoff calls for FBI to investigate Pulaski State Prison
The Division of Family and Children Services is part of the Georgia Department of Human Services. JOSHUA SHARPE/joshua.sharpe@ajc.com

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Foster children housed in child welfare offices; officials work to end practice
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger received a call from President Trump on Jan. 2, 2021, when Trump told him to "find" him 11,800 votes to overturn the election results. The AJC's ninth season of the "Breakdown" podcast explores what happened next and whether a crime was committed during the call. (Brynn Anderson / AP)

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‘Breakdown — The Trump Grand Jury’ Ep. 1: The Jan. 2 phone call
For more than 16 years, David Fahey ran The King's Cleft children's ministry with his wife, Kathy Fahey, who died in February. Amid accusations of physical abuse, state authorities have effectively dismantled the ministry, and Fahey faces multiple felony charges. (TYSON HORNE / TYSON.HORNE@AJC.COM)

Georgia officials botched abuse investigation into children’s ministry
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June 4, 2022 Ellijay - Pamela Dixon shows a picture of her daughter Mary Lewis, who is an inmate in Pulaski State Prison, on Saturday, June 4, 2022. Pamela Dixon paid more than $10,000 in protection money as gangs at Pulaski State Prison have threatened her daughter. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

Gang members using violence to extort inmates, families at Ga. prison for women
Former South Georgia police officer sentenced in Jan. 6 charge
Fugitive Georgia investment adviser ordered to pay $12 million
Foster care breakdown: $3M settlement in deaths of 3-year-old Georgia twins
Homeowner Stephen Burlingame stands outside of his townhome in the Village Grove subdivision in Suwanee. The state insurance commission is investigating the Gwinnett HOA for potential fraud. (Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com)

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State insurance commission investigates Gwinnett HOA over roof plan
Georgia jury punishes senior care home in ant attack case
Lawrenceville official suspended after another sexual harassment investigation
Ga. congressman’s votes emblematic of Washington dysfunction
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Suicides of 125 Georgia inmates point to another crisis for state prisons
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Atlanta official accused of taking bribes also took pandemic bailout money
Matthew Chappell served as a police officer in Georgia for three years, but had a record checkered with misconduct. He's now running for Congress in Virginia's 11th Congressional District. He recently posted this photo to his congressional Facebook page. Credit: Facebook

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Former Georgia cop who had ‘a problem with females’ now running for Congress
Herschel Walker spent years promoting health products with dubious claims
The radical rise and cultish fall of the Black Hammers
‘We are not invincible’: COVID-19 victims in Georgia skew younger each wave
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July 14, 2021 Smyrna - Rita Manatrizio plays with therapy dog Bella at her room at Woodland Ridge Assisted Living on Wednesday, July 14, 2021. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Georgia senior care homes struggle to rebound after pandemic
Rosemont at Stone Mountain is a senior living facility that has experienced a large number of Covid deaths. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Warnock, Johnson seek investigation of Georgia’s nursing home death data
James Dempsey died in 2014 after authorities say his nurses neglected his repeated calls for help.

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‘Granny cams’ bill disappoints senior advocates
Connie Kendrick and her son, William Kendrick, embrace as they see each other at The William Breman Jewish Home in Atlanta on Thursday. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Nursing home residents finally get to see their loved ones face to face
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220117-Atlanta-Traffic flows freely along the Downtown Connector on Monday morning, Jan. 17, 2022. Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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We full? Fulton, DeKalb populations shrink for the first time in more than a decade
The Georgia House voted mostly along party lines, 96-68, on Monday , November 22, 2021, to send the congressional redistricting map to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp for his signature. The new redistricting map will help Republicans to obtain victories before a single vote is cast in next year’s elections. Miguel Martinez for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Interactive: Poll of Georgia voters, January 2022
Atlanta mayoral candidates Andre Dickens and Felicia Moore at a runoff debate on Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021.

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Interactive: Poll of Atlanta voters, November 2021
Candidates qualify to run and possibly become the next mayor of Atlanta

Interactive: Poll of Atlanta voters, September 2021
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Atlanta crime trends, 2011-present
In 2019, Jeremy Taylor was rushed by way of ambulance to Grady Memorial Hospital after having a seizure at a store. Later, he got a bill for $1,947 from Grady Emergency Medical Services. The bill itemized only one charge, which he was notified had to be paid at once. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

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Federal government may have to wrest pricing information from hospitals
In 2019, Jeremy Taylor was rushed by way of ambulance to Grady Memorial Hospital after having a seizure at a store. Later, he got a bill for $1,947 from Grady Emergency Medical Services. The bill itemized only one charge, which he was notified had to be paid at once. (Alyssa Pointer/Atlanta Journal Constitution)

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Federal government may have to wrest pricing information from hospitals
Kati Manley, of Statesboro, was treated for kidney stones in a an outpatient procedure at East Georgia Regional Medical Center, and learned she was responsible for $4,000 after her insurance was billed $45.000. No one told her that she she could comparison shop online at a different hospital and perhaps pay less. “I wish I kind of knew that beforehand,’' said Manley. (Stephen B. Morton/For The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Georgia hospitals post prices online but good luck finding the information
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Interactive: Hospital pricing transparency report cards
'Breakdown' podcast
Maddox Kilgore, seen here in 2014, who was one of Justin Ross Harris’ trial attorneys, praised the Supreme Court’s ruling to throw out the murder conviction. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Breakdown" returns to the subject of Season 2 and examines how the conviction was successfully challenged. (AJC file)

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‘Breakdown’ Season 2, Ep. 18: ‘Death in a Hot Car; Mistake or Murder?’
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is the subject of the second episode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Breakdown podcast. Willis is overseeing the investigation of former President Donald Trump and his allies. (Jenni Girtman / AJC file)

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‘Breakdown’ Ep. 2: ‘A force of nature’
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger received a call from President Trump on Jan. 2, 2021, when Trump told him to "find" him 11,800 votes to overturn the election results. The AJC's ninth season of the "Breakdown" podcast explores what happened next and whether a crime was committed during the call. (Brynn Anderson / AP)

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‘Breakdown — The Trump Grand Jury’ Ep. 1: The Jan. 2 phone call
The ninth season of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Breakdown" podcast will examine Fulton County's grand jury probe into whether President Donald Trump and his allies tried to illegally interfere in the 2020 presidential election in Georgia. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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AJC Breakdown: The Trump Grand Jury
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Candles line the wall before a memorial service for Kyle Gregory on July 24. He is one of nearly 5,000 Georgia residents who had died of COVID-19 by July 2020. The state's death toll has now surpassed 30,000. Photo: Ben Gray for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution

‘We are not invincible’: COVID-19 victims in Georgia skew younger each wave
The Senate voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would provide protections from whistleblowers facing retaliation.

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Senate passes bill to protect local government harassment whistleblowers from retaliation
Central State Prison in Bibb County, which houses adult men, is among the Georgia facilities where inmates were murdered by other inmates in 2020 and 2021. At least 57 inmates have died from prisoner-on-prisoner violence in those two years.

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DOJ says state impeding investigation of prison violence
From left: Lawrenceville City Manager Chuck Warbington; Police Capt. Tawnya Gilovanni; and former Police Chief Tim Wallis.

Employees faced threats not to speak out on sex harassment scandal
March 23, 2022 Atlanta - Mitzi Bickers hugs her attorney Marissa Goldberg as she leaves after her trial in federal court at the Richard B. Russell Federal Building on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. A federal jury has found Mitzi Bickers guilty of nine charges in the first trial in the Atlanta City Hall corruption investigation. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)

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Bickers’ trial exposed flaws in city of Atlanta contracting
Former Lawrenceville Police Chief Tim Wallis

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Lawsuit: Lawrenceville city manager muzzled police chief, forced him out
Rev Mitzi Bickers (green blazer) is found guilty on all but three charges at the Richard B Russell Federal Courthouse on Wednesday, March 23, 2022. Bickers is surrounded by friends, family and her attorney Drew Findling (dark sunglasses) as she leaves the courthouse. Sentencing is scheduled for July 12. (Jenni Girtman for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

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Jury finds Mitzi Bickers guilty in Atlanta corruption case
A photocopy of a CD sent to AJC data journalist Jennifer Peebles in response to a state open records request she filed on behalf of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

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