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A high-ranking state official has resigned after an investigation showed she gave her sister's boyfriend a $72,000-a-year job he was unqualified for and then tried to fire him when the romance soured. Jean DeVard-Kemp, an assistant commissioner at the Department of Technical and Adult Education, resigned May 17 after a three-month investigation of allegations of nepotism, mismanagement, improper hiring, abuse of position and falsification of records. DeVard-Kemp's sister, Atlanta Technical College professor Audrey Fisher, was fired. So was her former boyfriend, Grailyn Wells, who told investigators he looked at the job as "Christmas in July." The attorney general's office is...