CANTON, Ga. - A body found in a trash container is believed to be that of a 7-year-old girl who went missing last week from an apartment complex playground north of Atlanta, authorities said yesterday....
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"Apartment complex janitor charged in slaying of a 7-year-old girl in Georgia" Associated Press / December 8, 2011
A 20-year-old maintenance worker was arrested in the beating death of a 7-year-old north Georgia girl who was abducted and killed at an apartment complex and her body left in a trash bin, authorities said yesterday.
Ryan Brunn, who lived and worked at the apartment complex, was taken into custody yesterday afternoon on a murder warrant, said Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Vernon Keenan.
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"Ga. megachurch head to take sabbatical" December 05, 2011|Associated Press
LITHONIA, Ga. - Megachurch leader Bishop Eddie Long announced yesterday that he is taking time off to focus on his family after his wife filed for divorce.
Long’s spokesman, Art Franklin, said the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church leader told his congregation during church services that he will continue to serve as senior pastor at the church in Lithonia just outside Atlanta. But Long said he needs a sabbatical.
Franklin declined to say how long the pastor’s sabbatical from the church would be. He said Long and his family “are asking for privacy and sensitivity to their family.’’
Long’s wife, Vanessa Long, filed a petition for divorce Thursday in DeKalb County Superior Court to end her 21-year marriage to the embattled minister. The church sent out a press release Friday morning saying Vanessa Long planned to withdraw her petition, but her lawyer said later in the day that she had changed her mind.
In her petition, Vanessa Long indicated that the marriage is “irretrievably broken’’ and there was “no hope of reconciliation of the parties.’’ She asked the court for temporary and permanent alimony, as well as lawyers’ fees and an equitable division of marital and nonmarital property.
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