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The Atlanta Journal Constitution
SPEAKER’S DIVORCE: Activist urges files be unsealed
Posted on Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 at 5:06 pm

By Bill Rankin The Paulding County divorce file of House Speaker Glenn Richardson and his wife, Susan, should be unsealed because the case is a matter of public interest, an ethics activist said in a court motion filed Tuesday. George Anderson of

Lawyers: Bynum Delaying Proceedings
Posted on Monday, February 18th, 2008 at 8:11 pm

ATLANTA (AP) — Lawyers for the estranged husband of televangelist Juanita Bynum have been trying to get her side of the story for four months, but they say she keeps postponing her appointment. Last month, Bynum was ordered by a Gwinnett Cou

The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Bynum, Weeks moved to forgive?
Posted on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 8:42 pm

By D. AILEEN DODD They have laid hands on the sanctified, the sinful, the sick —- and, allegedly, flailed them at each other, too. The stormy love affair of national evangelist Juanita Bynum and Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III, the power couple of Pe

The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Of failings and filings
Posted on Sunday, February 17th, 2008 at 5:08 pm

By Richard Halicks Many divorces have all the drama of returning a shirt to Target. The combatants simply exchange one contract for another, the first for love, the second for money. Occasionally, when a divorce is contested, the file reads like a

The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Evangelist’s husband to stand trial in March
Posted on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 5:09 pm

By D. AILEEN DODD A March court date has been set in the criminal case against the husband of national evangelist Juanita Bynum. Bishop Thomas W. Weeks III, who is accused of beating, stomping and choking his estranged wife in an Atlanta hotel par

The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Televangelist, husband meet in courtroom
Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2008 at 8:45 pm

By Beth Warren Televangelist Juanita Bynum, her estranged husband and a group of attorneys met for more than five hours Friday behind locked courtroom doors in Atlanta then slipped out a back door. No one involved in the hearing would discuss it a

Briggs in legal battle over child support
Posted on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 8:13 pm

Baby’s mother says Bears LB negligent in providing money By Brian Hamilton On Sept. 10, Bears linebacker Lance Briggs became a first-time father. Now that bundle of joy has spiraled into a heap of legal turmoil and untidy he-said, she-said a

Chicago Sun-Times
Broken promise?
Posted on Monday, December 17th, 2007 at 5:11 pm

CHILD SUPPORT | Briggs makes $7.5M a year, his child’s mother says she gets $250 a week By DSTEVE PATTERSON In the latest chapter of a soap opera-like saga, Chicago Bear Lance Briggs is facing a nasty legal battle that could soon turn nastie

The Atlanta Journal Constitution
Bishop Weeks yanks tell-all book on Bynum, apologizes in online video
Posted on Monday, December 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 pm

“She Wanted To Be the Next Oprah at Any Cost,” he notes By D. AILEEN DODD A jazz piano plays soft music. A field of holiday chrysanthemums fills the screen. A husband lounges on a red couch to send a video love letter to his estranged