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Residents in Portland, Ore. gathered in front of City Hall on Tuesday to protest the government's treatment of its homeless population. The group, a self-described "angry mob," carried pitchforks and torches while demanding that Mayor Charlie Hales end policies that criminalize homelessness.

The city government has come under fire in recent months for enforcing an ordinance that prohibits camping on public property, which critics say unfairly targets the homeless.  A 2013 city count found nearly 1,900 individuals in the Portland metropolitan area to be homeless and unsheltered, a 10 percent increase from 2011.

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General Motors is recalling 619,122 of its last-generation compact cars in the U.S. because a heavy keyring or jarring can cause the ignition to switch off, according to documents posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety administration site.

The company is aware of 22 crashes and six fatalities related to the ignition switch in 2005- to 2007-model Chevrolet Cobalts and 2007-model Pontiac G5s. The two mechanically similar sedans are discontinued models.

Wyoming is leading a coalition of 19 states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to let them submit a brief supporting a New Jersey man's challenge to that state's concealed weapons law.

The Wyoming Attorney General's Office, acting as lawyer for Wyoming and the other states, on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to grant a hearing to John M. Drake and others who are challenging a recent appeals court ruling.

A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last summer ruled against Drake's challenge to a provision in New Jersey law that says people seeking permits to carry a concealed firearm must prove to police that they have a justifiable need.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee would set aside $4 million to compensate about 125 victims of childhood sexual abuse — less than a quarter of all claims — and to sue its insurance companies in hopes of securing additional funds under a reorganization plan filed Wednesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court.

As part of the plan, the archdiocese said it would also borrow $2 million from a $57 million trust set aside for the operation of its cemeteries — money it argued it could not use for sex abuse claims — to pay a portion of its bankruptcy legal fees.

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that Kentucky must recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, striking down part of the state's ban on gay marriage. The ruling was just one of a series of gay rights issues coming before courts Wednesday in several states across the South.

A gay rights group planned a legal challenge to the Louisiana Constitution's prohibition against recognizing same-sex marriages performed legally in other states, and there were similar lawsuits in Texas and Mississippi.

Sid Caesar, the deft side-splitter who helped establish the new medium of television as he also established himself as a comedy legend, has died. He was 91.

"He had not been well for a while. He was getting weak," family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld told the Associated Press.

With a deceptively simple philosophy of humor – "I don't take myself too seriously," he told PEOPLE in 1989. "I just laugh at myself a lot and call myself a dummy" – Isaac Sidney Caesar had been eliciting laughs since the Great Depression, when he mimicked the accents of customers who came into his Russian-Jewish parents' luncheonette in his native Yonkers, N.Y.