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Lottery Winner Killed in Home Invasion

A forklift operator who recently won nearly a half-million dollars in the Fantasy 5 lottery game was killed in an apparent home invasion, police say.

Police in Fitzgerald, a south Georgia town about 60 miles east of Albany, say Craigory Burch Jr., 20, died early Thursday morning of gunshot wounds he suffered in his own home, according to WALB-TV.

Burch had won a $434,272 Fantasy 5 jackpot in November. >>>read more.

Forecast: Gwinnett Will Be Region’s Biggest County By 2040

Gwinnett will pass Fulton County and become the most populous county in metro Atlanta by the year 2040.

That’s the projection shared by Kerry Armstrong, chairman of the Atlanta Regional Commission, in his State of the Region address Wednesday in Duluth.

Gwinnett currently has a population of about 860,000. If current trends hold, that number is expected to continue growing in the coming years. >>>read more

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