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A California couple was fined $300 after the city of San Juan Capistrano said they were violating the city zoning code by having more than 50 people in their home at a time during home Bible studies.

The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis Wednesday night after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay.

The Supreme Court caused an astonishing last-minute delay to Troy Davis' execution on Wednesday, saying it needed time to review his appeal, CNN is reporting.

A Denver-based natural gas company has sued a small town in New York state over its ban on natural gas drilling, a case that may set a precedent on how local governments in the Empire State can regulate the controversial process known as fracking.

A last-ditch appeal on behalf of death row inmate Troy Davis was rejected on Wednesday, making it all but certain that Davis would be executed. Davis, 42, is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at 7 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.

As of Jan. 1, 2011, there were 3,251 total prisoners on death row in the U.S., but the number of executions per year has been declining over the past decade. Despite the decline, the United States still executes the fourth most people of any country in the world.

Davis was tried and convicted for the 1989 murder of Mark MacPhail, a police officer in Savannah, Ga.

While Georgia officials are planning to execute death row inmate Troy Davis for a 1989 murder, the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time this week granted a stay of execution in a Texas case involving an Army recruiter convicted of raping and killing a woman he met at a bar.

For the second time in a week's duration, the Supreme Court halted a planned execution in Texas by intervening in the final hours of the execution.

With the hours before Troy Davis' scheduled execution dwindling rapidly, the Georgia death row inmate's defenders made a last ditch attempt to delay his execution by demanding that prison officials let him take a polygraph test.

Death row inmate Troy Davis has been in familiar situations before, but this time it looks like his chances of clinging on to life are slimmer than all times before. After the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles denied his clemency plea and said his execution will take place as per schedule at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, observers are giving slim chances for the judicial system to give him another chance.

If the pardon board shows no mercy to his plea for polygraph test on Wednesday, Troy Davis will be executed on Wednesday for a murder that he claims he did not commit.

The board was the only thing standing between Davis, 42, and execution. It convened on Monday to hear hours of testimonies from supporters and prosecutors.

Convicted cop killer Troy Davis is set to be killed in Georgia Wednesday. Davis was denied clemency Tuesday morning by the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles, the only authority in the state with the power to commute a death sentence.

Troy Davis was denied clemency on Tuesday in a last-ditch appeal and is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the 1989 murder of a police officer in Savannah.

Texas' Republican controlled legislature is violating the Voting Rights Act by drawing new congressional districts that disenfranchise minority voters and ignore the state's booming Latino population, the U.S. Justice Department told a federal court on Monday.

Video recordings of the trial over California's gay marriage ban should be unsealed, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

The fate of Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis is in the hands of a state pardons board Tuesday. The Georgia pardons board is expected to announce whether or not it will grant leniency to Davis, convicted of killing a cop and scheduled for execution by lethal injection on Wednesday.

Thousands of people have protested against the scheduled execution of Troy Davis, a Georgia inmate who is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday.

The five-member Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles will meet on Monday to consider whether to grant clemency to Troy Davis, a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on Sept. 21 for the 1989 murder of a Savannah police officer.

The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles is the only thing standing between death row inmate Troy Davis and execution next week. The board will convene on Monday.