Ferguson

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A standoff involving Ferguson law enforcement officers and a man believed to have shot his brother in the head ended peacefully after hours of negotiations. Ferguson police spokesman Jeff Small says the suspect was taken into custody...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson's former municipal court clerk who was fired last month over racially charged emails linked to her tells the Associated Press she's not a bigot. The St. Louis suburb fired Mary Ann Twitty after the Justice Department called the emails into question in its report that found widespread racial bias in Ferguson's policing efforts and the municipal court system...

UPLANDS PARK, Mo. (AP) — A local government employee who blamed police for the shooting of two officers in Ferguson has been suspended from his job and could face further punishment. The village of Uplands Park suspended clerk John Muhammad after he said in a TV interview that the March 12 shooting was a "setup between members of the police fraternity...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Several Ferguson residents have started an effort to force a recall election of the city's mayor following a scathing Justice Department report on the police department and municipal court. Five residents have notified city hall that they've formed a committee to gather signatures to force the recall election of Mayor James Knowles III...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The attorney for a man accused of shooting two police officers last week in Ferguson said his client was not targeting police or aiming at demonstrators at a late-night protest. Defense attorney Jerryl Christmas also suggested that police used excessive force during their arrest of 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams...

PINE LAWN, Mo. (AP) — A day after a federal report demanded changes in policing and courts in Ferguson, a group of protesters pressed for similar reforms in a nearby St. Louis suburb. Keying on a Justice Department report Wednesday that found Ferguson's justice system unfairly treated backs, 19 protesters insisted the same was true in largely black, 3,200-resident Pine Lawn...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater St. Louis will open a new club in Ferguson. Officials say full details will be announced today by organization president Flint Fowler. The Ferguson club will provide recreational and educational for children ages 6 to 18

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The mayor of Ferguson says he tried in vain to get the National Guard deployed in his town as people burned and looted buildings in protest of a grand jury's decision in the Michael Brown case. Mayor James Knowles the Third was the lead witness last night as a Missouri legislative committee began hearing testimony on why the National Guard was not preemptively deployed i

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal lawsuits allege that jails in the St. Louis County towns of Ferguson and Jennings operate essentially as modern-day debtors' prisons, where minor traffic offenses can lead to extended periods behind bars. Two lawsuits were filed on behalf of people who have spent time in jail in such cases — 11 people sued Ferguson, and nine sued Jennings...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has received hundreds of tips on arson fires that followed the November announcement that Ferguson officer Darren Wilson would not be charged in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown...