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A photo provided by the FBI in October 2023 shows former CIA officer Brian Jeffrey Raymond, who pleaded guilty that year to drugging, filming and sexually assaulting dozens of women across multiple countries over a 14-year period.

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An ex-CIA officer gets 30 years for drugging, filming and assaulting dozens of women

Brian Raymond admitting to drugging, filming and assaulting the women, most of whom didn't know until investigators showed them footage. Several shared their experiences in court as he looked on.

September 19, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Georgia Department of Corrections Director Tyrone Oliver testified at two Senate committees in August about the impact that understaffing, aging facilities, and a more dangerous inmate population is having on a rash of violent incidents at state prisons. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder

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Georgia prisons chief tells state lawmakers drones are smuggling deadly contraband into prisons

The Georgia Department of Corrections continues to struggle with an onslaught of drones that are being used to deliver contraband, such as drugs, cell phones, and potentially even the firearm used by an inmate of Smith State Prison to kill a food service worker in June.

August 30, 2024
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  • Stanley Dunlap
A sculpture honoring Lita McClinton at her family's plot at Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery.

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New book examines the role of race, power, and privilege in the murder of Lita McClinton

A Devil Went Down to Georgia: Race, Power, Privilege and the Murder of Lita McClinton chronicles the long delay for justice. GPB's Peter Biello speaks with author Deb Miller Landau.

August 28, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
In this image taken from video, Joseph Grier speaks with reporters about a shooting in the food court of the Peachtree Center development in downtown Atlanta, Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo)

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He rambled to reporters after a downtown Atlanta shooting. Then, police say, he hijacked a bus

As police responded to reports of multiple people shot at a downtown Atlanta food court, Joseph Grier was on the sidewalk outside, rambling to reporters about his mental health, criminal record and banking history. Police say that just a short while later, he hijacked a commuter bus, ordering the driver at gunpoint to hit the gas and sending panic through the seats.

June 13, 2024
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Albert Kenneth Knight Jr.

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‘I hope they find the person who did this.’ Suspect still at large in homeless man’s killing

It took almost two days for Albert Knight Jr.’s body to be discovered in a downtown Macon alley.

June 11, 2024
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  • Laura Corley
Tuen Kit Lee is led away in handcuffs on Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in Danville, Calif. The fugitive dubbed the "bad breath rapist" was arrested in the San Francisco Bay area more than 16 years after he fled following his conviction for sexually assaulting a co-worker in Massachusetts, authorities said this week.

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'Bad breath rapist' from Boston area caught after 16 years at large in California

Tuen Kit Lee was found guilty in 2007 of the kidnapping and rape of the young woman at knifepoint near Boston. He was located in California after images of him emerged on social media.

May 30, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Rabbi Peter Berg (left) interviewed Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens on May 21.

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Mayor Andre Dickens addresses Jewish community on family, safety and housing

Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens is set on making Atlanta the best place to raise a family by 2030. That’s his “North Star,” he told the Jewish community on Tuesday at the Jewish Federation in Midtown.

May 23, 2024
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  • Logan Ritchie
Jeffery Christian, right, speaks at a press conference in Chicago, on May 7. Christian and dozens of others claim they were sexually abused as children while incarcerated at Illinois juvenile detention centers, as part of a lawsuit recounting decades of allegations of systemic child abuse.

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Youth detention facilities face increased scrutiny amid a wave of abuse lawsuits

A new lawsuit alleges widespread sexual abuse of juveniles took place over decades at Illinois youth detention facilities. Similar lawsuits have been filed this year in other states.

May 17, 2024
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  • Meg Anderson
Rep. Park Cannon is confronted by a state trooper in the Capitol rotunda in February 2021, a separate incident from her arrest the following month. The Georgia Supreme Court is set to decide on a case over Georgians’ right to demonstrate inside the Capitol.

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Georgia lawmakers who protested at the Capitol ask state Supreme Court to toss law used in arrest

The Georgia Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in the case of two Democratic elected officials arrested while protesting at the state Capitol. Lawyers representing Congresswoman Nikema Williams and Atlanta state Rep. Park Cannon said the laws used to arrest them are vague, overbroad and violate their free speech rights under the state constitution.

May 16, 2024
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  • Ross Williams
Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr

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Former Augusta University employee charged with stealing from the school

A former Augusta University employee has been indicted for allegedly stealing more than $300,000 from the school, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced Thursday.

May 03, 2024
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  • Dave Williams
Chatham County District Attorney Shalena Cook Jones, left, listens as former Chatham County chief assistant district attorney Jenny Parker speaks at a candidates' forum in Savannah on April 29, 2024.

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Key moments from the Democratic primary forum for Chatham County DA, in the candidates' own words

Incumbent Shalena Cook Jones and challenger Jenny Parker are vying to win the May 21 Democratic primary.

May 01, 2024
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  • Benjamin Payne
Medications are locked in a glass cabinet at a supermarket.

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Retailers howled about theft last year. Why not now?

Mentions of retail theft seem to be fading, their fever pitch cooling. What's changed? And how bad was the problem in the first place?

March 11, 2024
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  • Alina Selyukh
In this June, 19, 2018 photo, several ship to shore cranes stack shipping containers on-board the container ship Maersk Semarang at the Port of Savannah in Savannah, Ga. The Georgia Ports Authority reported Tuesday, July 30, 2019, that its ports at Savannah and Brunswick handled a record 37.5 million tons (34 million metric tons) of cargo in the 2019 fiscal year that ended June 30. That's a 4.2% increase over the previous year.

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$1 million in stolen cargo discovered in warehouse near Georgia port

Authorities in Georgia say they discovered an estimated $1 million worth of stolen cargo inside a warehouse a few miles from Savannah's busy seaport. 

February 29, 2024
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  • Associated Press
Asylum-seeking migrants line up in a makeshift, mountainous campsite to be processed after crossing the border with Mexico, Friday, Feb. 2, 2024, near Jacumba Hot Springs, Calif.  (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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The killing of a Georgia nursing student is now at the center of the U.S. immigration debate

The killing of nursing student Laken Riley has become an issue in the 2024 presidential campaign, with former President Donald Trump blaming President Joe Biden and his border policies for the Augusta University student's fatal beating, and suggesting migrants are committing crimes more often than U.S. citizens even though the evidence does not back up those claims.

February 28, 2024
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  • Associated Press

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Analysis: President's powers at the border need to be 'carefully controlled'

Republicans in Georgia are demanding that President Biden take action after a man who entered the country illegally was arrested for the killing of a woman on the University of Georgia Athens campus last week. But what does the president have the power to do at the border? 

February 27, 2024
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  • Peter Biello
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