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Darren “Chip” Lumar, who was gunned down in the parking garage outside his Buckhead townhouse last week, might have been killed by a hit man, the AJC reports.

Lumar was married to James Brown’s daughter, Yamma, until their bitter 2007 divorce. But the couple had resolved their differences and were friends at the time of Lumar’s death, Atlanta police homicide Det. Bill Boyd told the newspaper.

As for a motive, the APD didn’t yet have one nailed down:

Boyd said the killing may be related to the victim’s business dealings, but he would not elaborate.

One thing’s for certain — Lumar’s past escapades landed him in the spotlight. He allegedly had a volatile relationship with his then-wife, and an employee of his claimed he raped her.

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UNHAPPY AS A CLAM: Mussels, north Floridians will suffer from Corps of Engineers’ new water proposal, says a Florida congressman, while Lake Lanier Association president says the plan doesn’t go far enough.

LEGAL INJECTION: SCOTUS dismisses challenge to constitutionality of Kentucky’s lethal injection procedure, freeing up other states to kill their prisoners again. Two Georgia death-row inmates are now back on track to be executed.

SEPARATE BUT DIESEL: Ga. DOT explains the problems with bringing truck-only lanes to Atlanta, while the idea’s sponsor stubbornly soldiers on.

BURDEN OF PROF: Two still-unidentified Ga. Tech professors are being investigated for fraud and theft.

LEATHERHEADS: Georgia State is expected to announce today its plans to start a football team in 2010. AJC’s Tony Barnhart lists five things the Panthers must do to succeed. Around this time last year, Mark Bradley wrote why they won’t succeed.

LACROSSE-CULTURAL: Toli, the 500-year-old Native American predecessor of lacrosse, is big in Athens, where on Saturday UGA’s team will host the 21-time world-champion Conehatta Skunks, who are Choctaw.

THE PAYBACK: The Augusta Metro Spirit lists what will be available at James Brown’s estate sale in August.

PRO-STRIFE: Yale art student artificially inseminates herself “as often as possible,” takes drugs to induce miscarriages, collects the blood, and presents it along with videos of her miscarriages as her senior art project.

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James Brown duets with Pavarotti.

And they feel good. The most interesting verson of “It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World” that you’ll probably ever hear:

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