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    In a single day in mid-July, the state’s public report on the Dunwoody Health and Rehabilitation Center shot up from zero cases among residents, to 63 residents with confirmed cases of COVID-19 and six deaths. And the numbers kept climbing. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
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    Deadly outbreak at Dunwoody Health nursing home raises questions about...
    As of late July the region anchored by Tift Regional Medical Center and the region anchored by Athens hospitals have no more critical care beds left as the coronavirus pandemic spreads again within Georgia. (PHOTO by HYOSUB SHIN / HSHIN@AJC.COM)
    News
    Athens, Tifton hospitals run out of beds for critical patients
    Cuthbert is the county seat for Randolph County, which has been hit particularly hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Randolph had the highest county infection rate in Georgia in April. (Hyosub Shin / Hyosub.Shin@ajc.com)
    Coronavirus
    Struggling rural Georgia hospital calls it quits
    Prosecutor John B. Johnson III heads back to his area during the hearing for Dennis Perry in Brunswick on July 13, 2020. An Atlanta Journal-Constitution investigation has found that Johnson has withheld evidence in a series of cases that he was legally required to share with the defense, evidence that defendants could have used to win an acquittal. (Ryon Horne/RHORNE@AJC.COM)
    Georgia News
    Dark legacy of overturned convictions trails longtime prosecutor
    RN Debi Bartlett arrives for a medications administration for patient Rolando Heard in his room at Elbert Memorial Hospital in Elberton, which is pushing patient capacity on Thursday. (Curtis Compton / ccompton@ajc.com)
    Georgia News
    New COVID-19 cases push hospitals to capacity
    Dennis Perry, center, standing beside wife Brenda Perry gets emotional while thanking the team from the Georgia Innocence Project after they worked to get his release from 20 years behind bars, Thursday, July 23, 2020, in Nicholls, Ga. (Stephen B. Morton for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
    News
    Man walks free after conviction tossed in Ga. church murders
    The Imperfect Alibi special section in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
    Georgia News
    AJC ePaper Special: Behind the scenes of 35-year-old double murder case
    Dennis Perry in a recent photo. (Family photo)
    News
    Conviction overturned in Ga. church murders case
    Paramedic Christopher Kozinski demonstrates how the truck would be sanitized after every call at the Central EMS office in Roswell, July 16, 2020. STEVE SCHAEFER FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
    Georgia News
    Ambulance companies hit hard by COVID costs
    God's Anointed Youth Ministry, which has no listed phone number and only created a website earlier this month, received between $1 million and $2 million in coronavirus small business relief funds, for unclear reasons. Its address is the residence of Detra Lewis, an ordained minister, in the AMLI Buckhead apartment building in Buckhead. ALYSSA POINTER / ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM
    Local News
    COVID relief program exposed billions of taxpayer dollars to fraud
    Dennis Perry watched and listened remotely during a hearing for a new trial in the murder case in which he was found guilty two decades ago on July 13, 2020. Ryon Horne/RHORNE@AJC.COM
    The Imperfect Alibi
    Ga. prosecutors fight to keep man in prison despite evidence he’s...
    Tanner Medical Center -Villa Rica is part of Tanner Health System. The system, which also has a Carrollton hospital, has returned more than $62 million in federal provider relief money, saying the government made an error in calculating the payment to its Georgia hospitals. The “high-impact” funding was supposed to go to hospitals that admitted large numbers of COVID-19 patients, and the Tanner hospitals didn’t meet the threshold.
    Local News
    Georgia hospitals return millions in COVID-19 relief funding
    Whistleblowers who filed False Claims Act lawsuits against Universal Health Services will share in about $15.9 million after the company agreed to pay about $122 million to settle the cases. At least 10 of the whistleblowers originally filed suit in Georgia. (Contributed)
    Local News
    GA addiction centers in $122 million settlement of fraud claims
    Rising Daughter Baptist Church in Spring Bluff was the site of the murders of Harold and Thelma Swain on March 11, 1985. TYSON HORNE / TYSON.HORNE@AJC.COM
    Crime & Public Safety
    Man convicted in Georgia church murders has hearing to decide fate
    The U.S. Justice Department wants to shut down Atlanta-based EcoVest Capital over allegedly abusive conservation easement transactions “resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars of tax harm,” according to a federal complaint. SPECIAL
    National & World News
    Georgia companies accused of federal violations got COVID relief loans
    Georgia Politics
    As coronavirus cases climb in Georgia, data about race, ethnicity lag
    Crime & Public Safety
    Biracial student charged with murder says he was standing his ground
    Local News
    EXCLUSIVE: Grady, Augusta University abruptly end ambulance contract
    Local News
    Georgia sees testing system strained with rise in COVID-19 cases
    Georgia Politics
    Kemp signs bill to bring sweeping reforms to senior care in Georgia
    Crime & Public Safety
    Extremists plotted violence and trained at Georgia camp, feds allege
    A Georgia State University police officer looked on as demonstrators marched against police brutality on June 6. Some Black police officers contended they supported the plight of the protestors.JOHN AMIS/ FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
    Crime & Public Safety
    ‘You become blue’: Tension between Black cops, residents
    Westbury Medical Care hit hard by Covid-19 but shows its resilience | AJC
    Local News
    ‘It just spread’: A hard-hit nursing home’s battle with COVID-19
    A 200-bed temporary hospital for coronavirus patients opened in April inside the Georgia World Congress Center. But it saw only minimal use, and the facility is now being dismantled with 80 of its beds moved to a new pop-up hospital in Milledgeville, according to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency. CURTIS COMPTON / CCOMPTON@AJC.COM
    Local News
    Georgia shifts 80 overflow beds southward amid rural virus outbreaks
    Georgia coronavirus cases spike among young adults as virus surges
    Georgia Politics
    Georgia coronavirus cases spike among young adults as virus surges
    FILE PHOTO: The Battery was empty hours before the Braves would’ve been preparing for their home opener against the Marlins on April 3. (Gabe Burns / AJC)
    Georgia Politics
    Cobb reckons with Braves stadium debt during pandemic
    A 200-bed temporary hospital for coronavirus patients opened in April inside the Georgia World Congress Center. But because it saw only minimal usage, the facility is now being dismantled and 80 of its beds will be moved to a new pop-up hospital in Milledgeville, according to the Georgia Emergency Management and Homeland Security Agency.
    Local News
    80 coronavirus beds moving from Atlanta to Milledgeville
    National & World News
    Atlanta nursing home chain among those targeted in congressional probe
    Georgia Politics
    Senior care bill wins unanimous approval by the Senate
    Coronavirus
    Many fear looming housing, homelessness ‘crisis’ amid hold on evictions
    Local News
    Cash-strapped businesses hit with new infection-control costs
    Georgia Politics
    Senate committee approves senior care reform bill
    Business
    Undercover investigation cites Marietta, Gainesville funeral homes
    News
    Roswell man accused of fraud in foreign currency trading scheme
    Breakdown
    'Breakdown' podcast: Defendants in Arbery case get their day in court
    Georgia Politics
    Beleaguered Fulton city hires image consultant at $30,000 a year
    Local News
    Nursing homes now must report suspected COVID-19 cases and deaths
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