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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
Brunswick resident Dana Roberts Beckham poses next to a mural of Ahmaud Arbery on the side of a building in Brunswick. In the mural, Arbery is wearing a black tuxedo and a white collared shirt.

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  • Race

'You can't just throw your hate at me': Brunswick residents reflect on Ahmaud Arbery's legacy

Hear Brunswick residents share what the historic hate crimes verdict means to them moving forward.

February 25, 2022
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis speaks during an interview at her office, Feb. 24, 2021, in Atlanta. The prosecutor who's investigating whether Donald Trump and others broke the law by trying to pressure Georgia officials to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory is asking the FBI for security help after the former president railed against prosecutors investigating him.

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  • News

Georgia Today: Behind Fani Willis' investigation into Trump's election meddling

As Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis continues her investigation into former President Donald Trump’s attempted interference in the 2020 election, she’s been authorized to empanel a special grand jury. The Georgia Today podcast looks at the latest with Willis’ investigation and what to expect over the coming year.

February 04, 2022
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Jess Mador
Defendant Travis McMichael stands as the jury enters the room at the Glynn County Courthouse on November 8, 2021 in Brunswick, Georgia.

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  • Law

Trio found guilty of Ahmaud Arbery's murder

The jury deliberating the fate of the three white men charged in the shooting of Ahmaud Arbery has reached a verdict — all three guilty of murder.

November 24, 2021
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  • GPB News Staff
Ahmaud Arbery’s aunt Carla Arbery comforts Aailyah Trimmings, 9, and Alyria Carter, 10, outside of the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick on Oct. 16.

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  • News

The killing of Ahmaud Arbery: A timeline of events

With the trial underway for the three men charged in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, we've provided a timeline of key events over the past 1½ years. 

Travis McMichael, 35, his father Gregory McMichael, 65, and William Bryan, 52, the man who filmed the killing on his cellphone, face an array of state charges, including murder, aggravated assault for chasing Arbery in their pickups and false imprisonment.

November 02, 2021
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By:
  • Allexa Ceballos and
  • Riley Bunch
Community members and a police officer conversing at China Grove Baptist Church in Brookhaven.

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  • News

Faith, food, fun: Police enjoy an unconventional weekend with the community in Georgia

The second annual National Faith & Blue Weekend saw more than 200 outreach events in cities across the state of Georgia. Local churches across the state hosted a variety of events, including Halloween costume drives, litter clean-ups and community-building bike rides alongside local police officers.

October 14, 2021
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  • Allexa Ceballos
Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms in GPB Studios

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  • Politics

Georgia Today: Is Mayor Bottoms Paying The Political Cost For A COVID Crime Wave?

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms shocked many by announcing last week she will not be running for reelection. She said that this is coming from a place of strength and not weakness. But her critics have said that what she calls a “COVID Crime Wave” and her handling of the firing of Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, who shot Rayshard Brooks last summer, made her vulnerable if she had chosen to run. This week on Georgia Today, we look at some issues Bottoms faced during her tenure as mayor with CNN national correspondent Ryan Young.

May 12, 2021
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By:
  • Virginia Prescott and
  • Jahi Whitehead
Zoe Bambara

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  • Politics

'Utter disbelief': Across Georgia, Human Rights Activists React To Chauvin Verdict

Racial justice organizers across Georgia watched anxiously Tuesday as the verdict was read in the trial of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd. The former police officer was found guilty on three counts. GPB spoke with local activists about their reactions.

April 21, 2021
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  • Ellen Eldridge ,
  • Grant Blankenship ,
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Hattie Thomas Whitehead in the courtyard of Creswell Hall on the University of Georgia campus, mere feet from where the shotgun house she was raised in once stood. Thomas Whitehead and others with connections to the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a mind of reparations for the neighborhood's erasure.

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  • History

Reparations For 'Terrorism,' 'White Supremacy' In Athens Mark A Georgia First

Former residents of the Athens neighborhood of Linnentown have won a kind of reparations for the erasure of the neighborhood in the urban renewal period.

April 14, 2021
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  • Grant Blankenship
Georgia Supreme Court Justice Harold Melton

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  • Law

Ga. Supreme Court Justice: Trial Court Backlog 'Meaningfully Bad'

The chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court calls the backlog of criminal cases "meaningfully bad" — and says some people "who are waiting for trial in jail for a year under the presumption of being innocent until proven guilty."

February 08, 2021
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  • Donna Lowry
1000 empty chairs outside the Georgia state Capitol

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  • Health

Empty Chairs Outside Georgia Capitol Represent Nearly 10,000 COVID-19 Deaths

A group of COVID-19 survivors remembered those who have died with 1,000 empty chairs set up in front of the Georgia Capitol Wednesday.

Each chair represented nearly 10 Georgians who have died from COVID-19 this year as well as those who suffered lingering symptoms for months after clearing the virus. 

December 16, 2020
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
The names of the four victims of the Moore's Ford Bridge lynching, enscribed at National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala.

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  • History

Supreme Court Will Not Take Up Moore's Ford Lynching Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has said it will not hear arguments about unsealing more than 70-year-old grand jury documents tied to a notorious Georgia lynching at Moore’s Ford Bridge in Walton County.

October 21, 2020
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  • Grant Blankenship
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