Incredibly weak sourcing for Bynum article

The AJC's article about the reported divorce of evangelist Juanita Bynum is rather bereft of sources:

National evangelist Juanita Bynum apparently has filed for divorce, more than two weeks after the alleged attack by her estranged husband, Bishop Thomas Weeks III.

A relative on Thursday said that Bynum, 48, has filed for divorce, but court records were not available to provide further details. Bynum's publicist, Amy Malone, would not comment.

The reported divorce filing comes five years after Bynum and Weeks wed in 2002 in fairy-tale style on Trinity Broadcasting Network.

Weeks was holding on to hope that he could eventually work things out with his wife, attorneys say, when word of Bynum's filing for divorce spread on radio, TV and the Internet. A lawyer for Weeks said Thursday they had not been notified about a pending divorce. "We have not heard a thing," Louis Tesser said.

The only person attributed with saying anything is an unnamed "relative." The rest of the story refers to Internet, radio and TV reports and hides behind words like "apparently" and "reported." The three people that the reporter did talk to could not confirm the divorce papers had been filed.

The AJC should have held the story until it could verify the divorce papers had really been filed. Let other outlets publish rumor -- newspapers should stick to the facts.