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Billy Burns’ sacrifice fly in the 11th lifts Royals to 4-3 win over the Twins

The Royals, 80-77, have five games left in the regular season and trail Baltimore by five games for the second American League wild-card berth. In other words, a nearly inevitable finish — in which Major League Baseball crowns a new champion in 2016 — was halted by Burns’ sacrifice fly in a game that saw 17 pitchers toe the rubber.

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Civil rights group to ask feds to look at police shooting of Ryan Stokes

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City will ask the United States attorney general’s office and the FBI to investigate the shooting death of Ryan Stokes. Stokes was shot and killed by a Kansas City police officer on July 28, 2013.

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Israeli media: Former Israeli President Shimon Peres dies

Shimon Peres, a former Israeli president and prime minister, whose life story mirrored that of the Jewish state and who was celebrated around the world as a Nobel prize-winning visionary who pushed his country toward peace, has died, the Israeli news website YNet reported early Wednesday. He was 93.