OAKLAND, Calif. – Police used tear gas and flash grenades to break up hundreds of Occupy protesters after officers say some demonstrators threw rocks and flares at them, tore down fences and ignored orders to leave.
Police say three officers were injured and 19 people were arrested.
Oakland police said in a release that the crowd started assembling downtown Saturday morning and then marched through the streets, disrupting traffic.
Occupy protesters said last week that they planned to move into a vacant building and turn it into a social center and political hub.
Kevin White, former Boston mayor, dies
Retiring U.S. Rep. Barney Frank on Saturday paid tribute to former Mayor Kevin H. White, describing him as a political pioneer who opened up the Boston political system to blacks, women and gays.
White, who had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2003, died Friday at his Boston home. He was 82.
White, a white Irish Catholic from a family of politicians, is credited with revitalizing Boston’s downtown and seeing the city through court-ordered busing, but he ended his four-term tenure in 1983 under a cloud of ethics suspicions.
Wrong-way crash kills 4 in Maryland
Maryland State Police said four people died after a driver apparently went the wrong way on U.S. 50 between Washington and Annapolis and collided with another car.
Police said the crash happened about 3:30 a.m. Saturday about 15 miles west of Annapolis. Three people were dead at the scene, and one person died on the way to the hospital.
Three victims were in the vehicle traveling the wrong way. Police identified them as 18-year-old Breanna Marie Franco, 19-year-old Brittany Ann Walker and 18-year-old Zachary Tyler Rose.
The name of the fourth victim, who was in the vehicle traveling the right way, wasn’t immediately released.
Police are investigating. It is not known whether alcohol or speed was a factor in the crash.
World
5 arrested in British tabloid scandal
The criminal investigation into British tabloid skullduggery turned full force on a second Rupert Murdoch publication Saturday, with the arrest of four current and former journalists from the Sun on suspicion of bribing police.
A serving police officer was also held, and authorities searched the newspaper’s offices as part of an investigation into illegal payments for information.
The arrests spread the scandal over tabloid wrongdoing – which has already shut down one Murdoch paper, the News of the World – to Britain’s best-selling newspaper.
London police said two men aged 48 and one aged 56 were arrested on suspicion of corruption at homes in and around London.
A 42-year-old man was detained later at a London police station.
Murdoch’s News Corp. confirmed that four of those arrested were current or former Sun employees. The BBC and other British media identified them as former managing editor Graham Dudman, former deputy editor Fergus Shanahan, current head of news Chris Pharo and crime editor Mike Sullivan.
A fifth man, a 29-year-old police officer, was arrested at the London station where he works.
