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There was plenty of news across Georgia on Wednesday. If you missed any of it on your local Patch, here’s a roundup of some of the top stories from the past 24 hours.

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DeKalb County Sheriff Jeffrey Mann will serve a self-imposed one-week suspension for "conduct unbecoming," he told staff in a memo Wednesday. The move comes as Mann tries to stem repercussions, including the loss of his job, following his arrest on obstruction and indecency charges for allegedly exposing himself in Piedmont Park earlier this month: DeKalb Sheriff Mann Suspends Himself For 'Conduct Unbecoming'

The Brookhaven City Council approved plans to build a memorial for the "Comfort Women" of South Korea to raise awareness of the injustice and depravity of the global human sex trade. Brookhaven's statue, named Young Girl’s Statue for Peace, will show that the city, a quarter of whose residents are foreign-born, is in solidarity with the women and against sex trafficking across the world: Brookhaven Monument To Memorialize 'Comfort Women'

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