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BALTIMORE (AP) — Activists occupying Baltimore's City Hall say they won't leave until their demands are met. The protesters are opposed to the appointment of the city's interim police commissioner, Kevin Davis, as permanent commissioner. The demonstrators say they want changes to police tactics and significant investment in education and social services. The protesters have been chanting, "We will fight for Freddie Gray!" Gray died in police custody in April after sustaining a severe spine injury.
NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators say the fatal beating of a young man and the savage attack on his younger brother at an upstate New York church was intended to get them to confess their sins. Police say spiritual "counseling" at the Word of Life church turned into an hours-long attack Sunday night. Nineteen-year-old Lucas Leonard and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, were pummeled with fists and kicked. They sustained injuries to the abdomen, genitals, back and thighs. Lucas died. The boys' parents have been charged with manslaughter and four other adults are charged with assault.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry plans to travel to the Middle East to meet separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (mahk-MOOD' ah-BAHS'). Recent weeks of violence between Israelis and Palestinians have left dead a total of nearly 40 people from both sides. Eight of them are Israelis killed in a string of stabbings, shootings and the stoning of a car.
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities at a Las Vegas hospital aren't commenting on the condition of former Los Angeles Laker Lamar Odom, who was found unconscious Tuesday in a brothel. But Jesse Jackson, who visited Odom yesterday, says, "He at least has some responsiveness now." At his bedside have been his childhood friends, Kobe Bryant and Odom's estranged wife, reality TV star Khloe Kardashian. She filed for divorce in 2013.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Some retailers are selling pens that look like hypodermic needles. The Halloween novelty toys are stirring concerns among parents and drug abuse prevention advocates as the country battles a rising heroin and opioid addiction crisis. The pens are clear plastic tubes filled with brightly colored liquid, topped by a plunger and marked with the measuring lines found on syringes. Celeste Clark, director of the Raymond Coalition for Youth, says "I think it's an incredibly bad idea." Target says it will continue to sell the pens.
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