Thousands in St. Louis to protest police shootings
ST. LOUIS — Thousands gathered Saturday for a second day of organized rallies and marches protesting Michael Brown’s death and other fatal police shootings in the St. Louis area and elsewhere.Marchers...
View ArticleMore than 50 arrested in Ferguson police shooting protests
FERGUSON, Mo. — Pounding rain and tornado watches didn’t deter hundreds of protesters Monday outside Ferguson police headquarters, where they stayed for almost four hours to mark how long 18-year-old...
View ArticleBrown family urges police, protester restraint
CLAYTON, Mo. — Attorneys for the family of Michael Brown are urging restraint by both protesters and police once a grand jury decides whether the suburban St. Louis officer who shot him should face...
View ArticleGun sales surge ahead of jury's Ferguson decision
FERGUSON, Mo. — Some suburban St. Louis gun dealers have been doing brisk business, particularly among first-time buyers, as fearful residents await a grand jury's decision on whether to indict the...
View ArticleFerguson residents clean up, hope for calm night
FERGUSON, Mo. — Business owners and residents boarded up windows and cleared away debris Wednesday as Ferguson sought a tentative return to normal after two nights of unrest over the grand jury...
View ArticleFerguson officer who shot Michael Brown resigns
FERGUSON, Mo. — Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot Michael Brown, has resigned, his attorney said Saturday, nearly four months after the confrontation between the white officer and...
View ArticleKey interview missing from Ferguson documents
ST. LOUIS — A police interview with a key witness was not provided along with the thousands of documents released after a grand jury decided to not indict a Ferguson police officer in the fatal...
View ArticleMore Ferguson grand jury documents released
ST. LOUIS — The prosecutor who oversaw the Ferguson police shooting inquiry released additional grand jury documents Monday evening, but they do not include a law enforcement interview with a key...
View ArticleFederal autopsy released in Ferguson shooting
ST. LOUIS — A federal autopsy in the Ferguson police shooting reached similar conclusions to those performed by local officials and a private examiner hired by 18-year-old Michael Brown's family,...
View ArticleCalm prevails in Ferguson after shooting of police officers
FERGUSON, Mo. — Protesters called for calm but vowed to keep pushing for change in Ferguson a day after the shooting of two officers in front of the city's police department heightened tensions in the...
View ArticleSuspect charged in Ferguson police attack appears in court
CLAYTON, Mo. — The man accused of shooting two police officers last week in Ferguson appeared in court Monday, a day after his arrest on charges that he fired on the men during a late-night...
View ArticlePolice deny using excessive force in Ferguson suspect arrest
CLAYTON, Mo. — A spokesman says allegations that St. Louis County police used excessive force when arresting a man accused of shooting two officers in Ferguson are "completely false."read more
View ArticlePolice shooting suspect returns to court
CLAYTON, Mo. — A man accused of shooting two police officers in Ferguson returned to court Tuesday over a claim that St. Louis County police used excessive force during his arrest.A circuit court judge...
View ArticleMidwest prepares for possible tornadoes as storms move east
ST. LOUIS — A broad swath of the Midwest readied for hail, damaging winds and possibly tornadoes Thursday as a strong storm front continued to rumble east.read more
View ArticleMedical marijuana's big business lures ex-officers
COLLINSVILLE, Ill. — With fewer than 4,000 approved patients, the nascent medical marijuana business in Illinois is off to a slow start. Yet it hasn’t kept away a cadre of cannabis entrepreneurs who...
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