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ATLANTA — A 20-year-old maintenance worker who this week pleaded guilty to killing a seven-year-old girl died as a result of “ligature hanging,” the GBI confirmed on Friday. Ryan Brunn, 20, who faced life in prison, “hanged himself with his sweat-shirt,” the investigative agency said in a statement. Brunn earlier this week pleaded guilty to killing Jorelys Rivera in Canton in December. “The ongoing investigation by agents from the GBI’s Milledgeville Regional Office has not uncovered

A Georgia Congressman this week said he accepted an offer from the administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to “sit down and go through TSA’s books.”

The National Park Service (NPS) is proposing four land exchanges at the Cumberland Island National Seashore the agency says would protect important parcels now privately owned from development.