Behind the Investigation with Atlanta News First

A Georgia hospital is facing a lawsuit, alleging it failed to prevent the suicide of a 35-year-old man who sought emergency psychiatric care and blames a lack of staff and oversight for his death.

The suit, filed by the family of Michael Sharadin, claims Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah and its staff did not provide the supervision required for patients experiencing a mental health crisis. The wrongful death and medical malpractice complaint names several nurses, a physician, a psychiatric nurse practitioner, and the hospital’s parent companies as defendants

As a result, Jonathan, now 34, has lived in a chair, immobile, for a decade. He has Locked-in Syndrome, a rare neurological disorder where a person is conscious and aware but unable to move or speak due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles, except the eyes.

Her rental insurance policy had a maximum of $26,000, leaving $1,000 for hotel, food, and damaged contents. Why every renter needs to check their coverage.

Pullen said there are no leaks in her unit, and Atlanta News First Investigates confirmed her water meter showed no activity when all water sources were turned off.

 A Cumming, Georgia, homeowner and his roofer spent three years going back and forth with State Farm Insurance company to get a full roof replacement approved, only to find they didn’t payout after the job was complete.

The situation is something metro Atlanta roofer David Garner said he has never seen in the near decade he’s been working with insurance companies on roof repairs.

In this Behind the Investigation special, we look at Georgia's literacy crisis; how an international crime ring is stealing electronic food stamp benefits; skyrocketing timeshare fees; and how an FBI raid on the wrong house cost a man his childhood.

A Georgia mother who says she’s a U.S. citizen remains locked inside a private immigration detention center, swept up in a wave of federal immigration enforcement that’s bringing historic profits to the company detaining her.

Homeowners in this metro Atlanta subdivision said their HOA hasn't provided any financial documentation for nearly two years. Here are your rights as a Georgia homeowner who is living under the rule of an HOA.

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The parents of a 27-year-old man with severe autism are calling on state officials to intervene after their son was allegedly assaulted and neglected multiple times while living in a group home run by Brightstar Homes and Services. 

Note: This episode was uploaded on May 14, 2025.

Everyone has the right to receive their mail. But for more than a year, Decatur attorney Dan DeWoskin has been fighting to make that happen at his home on Ponce de Leon Avenue, where a persistent sinkhole kept swallowing his mailbox.

Regina Stansbury wasn’t expecting drama when an AT&T crew showed up in her Duluth neighborhood in July 2023. The crew was there to hook up a fiber optic line for her next-door neighbor, Maria Stringfellow. “I just wanted a piece of the internet,” Maria said. “Was that too much to ask?” Apparently, it was.

Georgia is confronting a reading crisis decades in the making. By the time students reach fourth grade, only one in three can read proficiently, according to a 2025 state assessment. Critics say failed teaching methods, a lack of teacher preparation, and ineffective early interventions are to blame.

The Sandy Springs City Council recently passed three new ordinances limiting First Amendment activity, the most controversial of which creates an eight-foot buffer zone between someone wanting to share a message and anyone who doesn’t want to hear it.

A disabled metro Atlanta man living with mold, cockroaches and a partially collapsed ceiling successfully sued his landlord more than a year ago, but is still waiting for his complex to make the court-ordered repairs and pay him.

A metro Atlanta police department is under scrutiny after arresting a man for a violent home invasion, despite evidence casting doubt that he could have committed the crime.

An Atlanta News First investigation has uncovered how easily a total stranger can steal your American dream. 

Civil rights investigations into hundreds of Georgia education-related discrimination complaints could be left unresolved following President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education.

Rachel Fuller’s 4-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son haven’t lived at her house in years. The last time Fuller saw them was February 2024, around the time her parental rights were terminated after she tested positive for methamphetamine.

An extensive Atlanta News First Investigation, Stolen Sobriety, uncovered numerous cases where children were removed from their parents after a failed drug test. The investigation has found that some of the state’s contracted labs to perform those tests have credibility issues.

Thirty years ago, the U.S. Department of Justice warned the failure to learn to read was not just linked to delinquency, but a likely cause of it. That prediction is playing out today across Georgia, where low literacy rates remain persistent and incarceration rates remain the highest of any democratic country in the world.