Gov. Jay Nixon is forming a commission to study and recommend ways to address the issues raised by events in Ferguson, he announced Tuesday at a news conference.
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Read More »Gov. Jay Nixon is forming a commission to study and recommend ways to address the issues raised by events in Ferguson, he announced Tuesday at a news conference.
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Read More »Forensic evidence may corroborate accounts by police in Ferguson that teenager Michael Brown was involved in a scuffle with an officer before he was shot and killed, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation.
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Read More »Clashes over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager that were confined to a hardscrabble stretch of suburban Ferguson are enveloping the St. Louis area, much of which had watched events unfold safely on the television screen.
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Read More »Five cases where Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson is the primary witness are on hold, a spokesman for the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney has confirmed.
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Read More »What American Civil Liberties Union attorneys have called a “five-second rule” requiring protesters to keep moving is still being enforced in Ferguson, an activist said Monday in federal court in St. Louis.
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Read More »St. Louis County Circuit Judge Ellen Levy Siwak took under advisement Wednesday a request to open Michael Brown’s juvenile record, but arguments at a hearing indicated Brown had not been charged with certain felony offenses as a juvenile.
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Read More »An attorney with Black Lawyers for Justice filed a civil federal lawsuit Thursday seeking damages for Ferguson protesters who claim to have been unlawfully arrested and abused by police.
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Read More »Annette Gordon-Reed, a law professor at Harvard University and scholar on race, gives her thoughts on race relations in the U.S. after the unrest in Ferguson.
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Read More »Legal advocates are still working to help in Ferguson, including a plea for amnesty for people with outstanding warrants.
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Read More »Missouri National Guard troops will begin to pull out of Ferguson, according to an order Thursday from Gov. Jay Nixon.
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Read More »The Missouri grand jury that began considering evidence Wednesday in the police killing of an unarmed man won’t decide whether to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson until October “at the earliest,” a spokesman for the local prosecutor said.
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