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Lilburn police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man. Police said they were called out to a man's home on Hillcrest Drive on Saturday night. A group of friends said they were going to pick up a girl who lived in the area to go ice skating around 10 p.m. when their GPS system sent them to the wrong home.

Authorities on Friday identified the body of a man who was found entombed in concrete in the backyard of a northeast Georgia home. The man has been identified as Sean Dugas, 30, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation medical examiner's office. The body was found Monday encased in a plastic storage container filled with concrete.

A jury in Gwinett County, Ga., has awarded $3 million to the widow of an Atlanta police officer who died while having three-way sex, finding that his doctor was negligent in not properly diagnosing and treating his heart condition.

Authorities say a Georgia man is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the leg at a Savannah gun show.

Troy Davis is executed in Georgia for the shooting of a policeman in 1989, after his final appeal was rejected by the US Supreme Court.

Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7 p.m. in the killing of a Savannah police officer 22 years ago.

Hundreds of thousands of people are rallying to support Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis. They not only oppose capital punishment but they also believe the state could put an innocent man to death. The case is packed with drama: the murder of an off-duty police officer; conflicting eyewitness testimony; last-minute court decisions sparing a condemned man's life and global dignitaries who say they fear an innocent man could die.