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News Articles: Justice

The Effingham County School District logo is displayed on a clear glass wall inside a building.

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  • Law

Lawsuit: Georgia school district lowered Black student's GPA after he reported racist Snapchats

Grades were allegedly changed from A's to C's in retaliation.

January 18, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is seen during Juneteenth, which commemorates the end of slavery in Texas, two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves elsewhere in the United States, in Washington, D.C. U.S., June 19, 2021. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Are we living up to King's dream?; Biden visits Ebenezer

Monday on Political Rewind: As we remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy today, our special panel will ask if we're living his dream in the modern day. Plus we discuss President Biden's visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church. 

January 16, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia David Estes speaks at a news conference at the Glynn County Police Department headquarters on Jan. 11, 2023.

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  • Law

Largest federal indictment in history of Georgia's Southern District charges 76 with drug conspiracy

Federal prosecutors in Southeast Georgia announced Wednesday a massive drug trafficking indictment, charging 76 people — including a state prison guard — with operating a drug distribution network of opioids and other controlled substances in and around Brunswick's Glynn County.

January 12, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
The Effingham County School District logo is displayed on a clear glass wall inside a building.

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  • Law

Lawsuit: Georgia school district barred high schoolers from wearing Black Lives Matter clothing

Students were allegedly told that BLM was disruptive, while the Confederate flag was a point of pride.

January 09, 2023
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
In this photo provided by the FBI, the man in the yellow circle is identified by an agent as Dominic Box on the east stairs of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

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  • Law

Federal case against Savannah man charged in Jan. 6 insurrection on track to proceed more quickly

The January hearing for Dominic Box, a Savannah man charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, is two months earlier than originally scheduled.

January 06, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Georgia Supreme Court

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  • Law

Georgia Supreme Court upholds agreement to delay death-row execution 

An agreement reached by email constitutes a valid contract the state must uphold, even if that means delaying the execution of a person on death row, the Georgia Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday.

December 21, 2022
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By:
  • Rebecca Grapevine

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  • News

Ex-school superintendent admits guilt in multiple thefts

Former Pickens County School Superintendent Carlton Wilson has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of racketeering and theft, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr said Monday.

December 06, 2022
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By:
  • Dave Williams
A freight train bearing the logo of CSX Transportation travels through Valdosta, Georgia.

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  • Law

A Georgia man sues a freight rail company. He says he was fired for reporting safety violations

Chase Highsmith alleges that CSX allowed trains to leave its Waycross hub with inoperable brakes, and that he was fired in part for reporting this to federal regulators.

September 14, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Georgia State Rep. Edna Jackson, Evalena Hoskins, and Mary Gray pose next to a new historical marker on Tybee Island commemorating the Savannah Beach Wade-Ins of the early 1960s.

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  • History

From ‘whites only’ to Georgia's largest public beach: New marker honors ‘Wade-Ins’ on Tybee Island

The Savannah Beach Wade-Ins of the early '60s are now memorialized near the Tybee Island pier.

August 22, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne

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  • Law

Coastal Georgia's Chatham County joins other localities focused on ‘fines and fees justice’

The Savannah area could serve as a model for reform across Georgia, a state which relies heavily on fines and fees for local revenues.

August 16, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are set to stand trial on federal hate crime charges in February after being convicted the day before Thanksgiving in the Glynn County courthouse for the shooting death of 25-year-old Ahmaud Arbery.

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  • Law

Ahmaud Arbery's murderers to be sentenced Monday for federal hate crimes

Travis McMichael, Greg McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan are already serving life sentences for their state murder convictions as they await federal sentencing.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
A now emptied block of apartments at the deemed "unlivable" Miga Villa apartment complex in Macon.

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  • Your Money

When a landlord lets housing conditions falter, the penalty is difficult to exact

Signing a lease on an apartment is a legally binding contract between you and your landlord. what happens when a landlord doesn’t hold up their end of the bargain?

April 18, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A photo of Joshua Lester, left, and his son Memphis, on Nancy Masters' phone.

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  • Law

A mother's son was killed in a Georgia prison. She's at a logjam for answers

Nancy Masters' son Joshua Carl Haynes Lester was killed while serving time at Central State Prison in Macon. She'd like to file suit for wrongful death, but first she needs documents the prison system won't give up. 

March 25, 2022
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By:
  • Evey Wilson Wetherbee
Kerry Robinson is one of three Georgians currently seeking restitution for a wrongful conviction through an ad hoc legislative process that critics have long described as inefficient and inconsistent.

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  • Politics

Bipartisan effort to reform Georgia’s wrongful conviction compensation process advances

A bipartisan bill in the Georgia House of Representatives aims to create a wrongful conviction compensation statute and establish a formal process.

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • Clay Voytek
Georgia Department of Corrections Officers at the department's training facility in Forsyth in  2011.

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  • Law

Amended Georgia budget could include big raise for correctional officers

Correctional officers in Georgia prisons could see a significant raise if an amendment to the state budget makes it to the governor’s desk.

March 04, 2022
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
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