A woman listens during a rally at Greater Grace Church, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, for Michael Brown Jr., who was killed by police, last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — An attorneys’ group is suing to try to get police records about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in […]
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Police Shooting Draws Protesters from Near, Far
People protest the police shooting death of Michael Brown a week ago in Ferguson, Mo., Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. Despite heavy rainfall and lightning, hundreds of protesters gathered Saturday night at a busy thoroughfare that has been the site of previous clashes with police. Dozens of officers, a much more visible presence than the night […]
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Serena Williams, Federer Win Titles at Western & Southern Open in Cincinnati
Serena Williams poses with the championship trophy after defeating Ana Ivanovic, from Serbia, 6-4, 6-1, in a final match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, in Mason, Ohio. MASON, Ohio (AP) — Serena Williams dominated for her first championship in Cincinnati. Roger Federer got his unprecedented sixth title, overcoming one […]
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Liberia: Fears of Ebola Spread Rise as Clinic Looted
People pass by Ebola virus health warning signs, in the city of Monrovia, Liberia, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014. Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon spread through the capital’s largest slum after residents raided a quarantine center for suspected patients and took items. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh) MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) — Liberian officials fear Ebola could soon […]
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Ferguson Saturday Night Curfew Unrest: Police Deploy Tear Gas
A law enforcement officer watches Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014, as tear gas is fired to disperse a crowd protesting the shooting of teenager Michael Brown last Saturday in Ferguson, Mo. Brown’s shooting in the middle of a street following a suspected robbery of a box of cigars from a nearby market has sparked a week […]
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Serena Williams Advances to Western & Southern Open Finals
Serena Williams returns a volley to Caroline Wozniacki, from Denmark, during a semifinal match at the Western & Southern Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014, in Mason, Ohio. Williams won 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. MASON, Ohio (AP) — Serena Williams rallied to advance to the Western & Southern Open final, and Roger Federer moved into position […]
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Missouri Gov. Declares Emergency, Imposes Curfew in Ferguson
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he’s declared a state of emergency and is implementing a curfew in the St. Louis suburb where a Black teenager was shot to death by a White police officer a week ago. Nixon said Saturday that the state will not allow a handful of looters to […]
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Police vs. Protesters vs. Looters: Ferguson 
Explodes Again
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Anger spurred by the death of a Black teenager at the hands of a White police officer boiled over again when protesters stormed into a Missouri convenience store — the same one Michael Brown was accused of robbing. Police and about 200 protesters clashed in Ferguson, Missouri, late Friday after another […]
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Chief: Officer Didn’t Know Brown Was A Suspect
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The police chief in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black teenager was fatally shot by police says the officer didn’t know the teen was a robbery suspect at the time of the shooting. Ferguson Police Chief Thomas Jackson earlier Friday released documents alleging 18-year-old Michael Brown had been suspected […]
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Texas’ Perry Indicted for Abuse of Power
Texas Gov. Rick Perry AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for allegedly abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public corruption — making the possible 2016 presidential hopeful his state’s first indicted governor in nearly a […]
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Missouri Highway Patrol Seizes Control of Ferguson
Thousands of demonstrators peacefully march down a street along with police from St. Louis County and the Missouri Highway Patrol Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in Ferguson, Mo. The Missouri Highway Patrol seized control of a St. Louis suburb Thursday, stripping local police of their law-enforcement authority after four days of clashes between officers in riot […]
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Baltimore Aug. 14 Community Gatherings in Response to Michael Brown, Jr.’s Death
A march organized by area ministers makes its way down W. Florissant in Ferguson, Mo. (AP Photo/St. Louis Post-Dispatch, J.B. Forbes) BALTIMORE – Three gatherings are plan ned in Baltimore, Aug. 14, in response to the fatal shooting of Missouri teen Michael Brown. The Rev. Cortly Witherspoon Sr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) […]