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'I really feel angry': Wellstar patients hit with massive bills due to liens
Becker's Healthcare - Wed Feb 3, 2021
Many hospitals - especially those belonging to large, wealthy health systems - increase revenue by using liens to bypass patients' insurance and collect full charges from accident victims' settlements, according to a February 1 report from The New York Times. More»

Bodycam Captures Police Chief, Officer Defending Slavery, Using Racial Slurs
Yahoo News - Sun Jan 31, 2021
HAMILTON, Georgia - A west Georgia police chief and an officer have reportedly been forced from their department after body camera footage taken before a Black Lives Matter protest in their area last year captured the two men defending slavery and using racial slurs. More»

U.S. soldier arrested in plot to blow up New York City 9/11 Memorial
PBS - Tue Jan 19, 2021
HINESVILLE, Georgia - A US Army soldier was arrested Tuesday in Georgia on terrorism charges after he spoke online about plots to blow up New York City's 9/11 Memorial and other landmarks and attack US soldiers in the Middle East, authorities said Tuesday. More»

FBI warns of armed protests in ALL 50 states if Trump is removed before Inauguration Day
Daily Mail - Mon Jan 11, 2021
The FBI is warning of possible armed protests at capitols in all 50 states in the days leading to Inauguration Day as cities around the country brace for violence in the wake of last week's deadly riots at the US Capitol. More»

Trump mob surrounds Texas, California, Michigan, Georgia, Oregon AND Kansas state capitols
Daily Mail - Wed Jan 6, 2021
A mob of angered Trump supporters has occupied the front lawn of Washington's Democratic Governor Jay Inslee's mansion as they also surrounded state capitols in Texas, California, Georgia, Michigan, Kansas and Oklahoma. More»

Number of Women Alleging Misconduct by ICE Gynecologist Nearly Triples
The Intercept - Fri Dec 11, 2020
OCILLA, Georgia - At least 17 women treated by a doctor alleged to have performed unnecessary or overly aggressive gynecological procedures without proper informed consent remain in detention at Irwin County Detention Center, a privately run facility in Georgia housing US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement detainees, according to a briefing and written materials submitted by attorneys and advocates to Senators in a closed-door meeting on Capitol Hill. More»

ICE Nurse Revealed That A Georgia Detention Center Is Performing Mass Hysterectomies
Yahoo News - Tue Sep 15, 2020
On Monday, a nurse at a private immigration detention center in Georgia came forward about a range of dangerous medical practices at a US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility. More»

Georgia ACLU Published Its 7-Year Study of Republicans' Unconstitutional Voter Disenfranchisement Scheme
Hill Reporter - Mon Sep 7, 2020
The state of Georgia has been quietly and illegally purging hundreds of thousands of valid registered voters from the state rolls for the better half of a decade, according to a blockbuster report from the American Civil Liberties Union, which was commissioned in 2013 by the ACLU and conducted by the Los Angeles-based non-partisan Palast Investigative Fund. More»

Georgia governor files lawsuit to "restrain" Atlanta mayor from talking about face masks
Raw Story - Sun Jul 19, 2020
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D) revealed on Sunday that Governor Brian Kemp (R) is trying to use the court system to "silence" her because he opposes the face mask mandate she has put in place. More»

Georgia Hospital Worker Sounds Alarm: 'I Have Never Ever Seen Anything Like This'
NPR - Fri Jul 17, 2020
The emergency room overflowed with patients. More»

Social Security demands money from Georgia woman from 4 decades ago - when she was still a child
WSB-TV - Thu Jul 9, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia - The Social Security Administration is demanding a Georgia woman should have to pay for a government mistake the agency made more than four decades ago. More»

Georgia governor declares state of emergency and calls up National Guard
CNN - Mon Jul 6, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia - Georgia Governor Brian Kemp on Monday declared a state of emergency and activated as many as 1,000 National Guard members. More»

Georgia nurses accuse hospital of manipulating COVID-19 test results
WXIA-TV - Sat Jun 20, 2020
ATHENS, Georgia - The lawsuit filed against Landmark Hospital in Athens has many allegations including nurses being instructed to swab incorrectly to give false results. More»

"Blue Flu" in Atlanta
The Guardian - Thu Jun 18, 2020
Donald Trump has defended the police officer who shot dead Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta, as a number of officers called in sick after their colleague was charged with murder. More»

Atlanta Police Officer Who Shot Rayshard Brooks Charged With Felony Murder
NPR - Wed Jun 17, 2020
ATLANTA, Georgia - The white Atlanta police officer who shot a 27-year-old black man in the back last week in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant will face a charge of felony murder and 10 other charges, a Georgia county prosecutor announced Wednesday. More»

Atlanta police chief RESIGNS and mayor calls for white cops who shot dead 27-year-old black man Rayshard Brooks to be fired
Daily Mail - Sat Jun 13, 2020
The chief of police in Atlanta has resigned less than 24 hours after cops fatally shot a man whom investigators say grabbed an officer's taser and pointed it as he fled from police. More»

Georgia election disaster condemned as result of deliberate GOP voter suppression: "This is by design"
AlterNet - Wed Jun 10, 2020
Photos of would-be Georgia voters standing - and, in some cases, sitting - in long lines after 11 pm to cast their ballots in the state's primary on Tuesday encapsulated what rights groups and lawmakers decried as a disastrous day for democracy and an entirely predictable result of years of deliberate voter suppression efforts by Republican lawmakers and the US Supreme Court. More»

Ahmaud Arbery: anger mounts over killing of black jogger caught on video
The Guardian - Thu May 7, 2020
BRUNSWICK, Ga - On a sun-speckled, tree-lined street on a sunny Sunday afternoon, Ahmaud Arbery ran through his neighborhood in the coastal town of Brunswick, Georgia. More»

Front-Runner for Country's Dumbest Governor to Reopen Essential Bowling Alleys, Nail Salons Friday
Vanity Fair - Mon Apr 20, 2020
Brian Kemp seemingly asked for a list of the businesses where people are in closest proximity, a key factor to spreading COVID-19, and said, Let's start with those. More»

Tornado in Georgia lifts house, drops it on middle of road
FOX - Mon Apr 13, 2020
A county roadway in central Georgia resembles a scene out of the movie "Twister" after an apparent tornado dropped a house on a road Monday as a deadly severe storm system slammed the region. More»

Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus "Hit Like a Bomb"
New York Times - Mon Mar 30, 2020
A mourner came to Albany, Georgia to attend the funeral of a retired janitor. More»

Do I have COVID-19? Maybe. But like many Georgians, I've found it impossible to get a test.
Atlanta Magazine - Sat Mar 28, 2020
Since my husband, Jim, and I returned from a trip overseas on Monday, March 16, we've followed the instructions CDC workers distributed on our plane: avoiding others, checking our temperatures, keeping an eye out for the major symptoms of coronavirus infection - fever, coughing, and shortness of breath. More»

GOP's Coronavirus Insider Trading Scandal
Raw Story - Fri Mar 20, 2020
In a series of bombshell news reports, two GOP senators, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Kelly Loeffler of Georgia, are facing serious questions surrounding their dumping of hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars worth of stock as the coronavirus began to unfold and become a major international news story. More»

Customs agent took nearly 18 kilos of cocaine to Atlanta airport, feds say
Atllanta Journal-Constution - Wed Mar 11, 2020
A US Customs and Border Protection officer tasked with intercepting drugs was indicted on federal charges after authorities found nearly 18 kilograms of cocaine in his carry-on luggage at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, prosecutors said. More»

Hackers May Have Gained ‘Almost Total Control’ Of An Election Server In Georgia
MSN - Wed Jan 22, 2020
An election security report has revealed evidence of a possible hacking on a Georgia server that may have compromised the state’s voting machines in both 2016 and 2018. More»

Three men linked to neo-Nazi group arrested in Georgia
Associated Press - Fri Jan 17, 2020
Three men linked to a violent white supremacist group known as The Base were charged with conspiring to kill members of a militant anti-fascist group, police in Georgia announced Friday, a day after three other members were arrested on federal charges in Maryland and Delaware. More»

Expert: Georgia election server showed signs of tampering
Associated Press - Thu Jan 16, 2020
BOSTON - A computer security expert says he found that a forensic image of the election server central to a legal battle over the integrity of Georgia elections showed signs that the original server was hacked. More»

Teacher accused of threatening to add students to her suicide note
WGCL-TV - Thu Dec 12, 2019
LITHONIA, Georgia - The use of the word suicide has become cause for alarm when used in a school setting, and that is exactly what one DeKalb County teacher is being accused of. More»

Group of teens storms elementary school bus, attacks children inside, officials say
WSB-TV - Mon Nov 18, 2019
DEKALB COUNTY, Georgia - Police say a group of teens stormed a school bus today and attacked elementary school children. More»

Police officer held up hotel guests at gunpoint while in uniform
WSB-TV - Wed Nov 13, 2019
COBB COUNTY, Georgia - A former Atlanta police officer is in jail, accused of wearing his uniform while he committed crimes. More»

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