Ferguson

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A business owner, two pastors, a community activist and a police detective are among the 16 people appointed by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to an independent panel tasked with helping the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson heal after the fatal police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — Top St. Louis city and county officials are urging residents to remain calm once a grand jury decision in the Michael Brown case is announced. St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley and St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay said at a joint news conference yesterday that while protesters' civil rights will be respected, looting and violence won't be tolerated...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The owners of a Ferguson bar who say they lost business when police set up a command post outside their building during the Michael Brown shooting protests want state and local governments to pay for the inconvenience...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Seventeen protesters have been arrested in a St. Louis convenience store parking lot near where a recent police shooting reignited anger about an earlier Ferguson shooting. St. Louis police said in an email yesterday that the arrests were for unlawful assembly...

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — The suburban St. Louis County police officer who fatally shot an unarmed 18-year-old has enlisted a police union attorney who has spent decades representing members of law enforcement in court. James P. Towey Jr. told The Associated Press that he represents Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — The city of Ferguson is giving a second chance to a public relations consultant fired after officials learned of his 2006 reckless homicide conviction in Tennessee. A regional economic development agency terminated its contract with Devin James last week over what it called a "lack of transparency...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Department of Justice civil rights investigators have heard one story after another about police harassment and brutality in Ferguson, a suburban St. Louis town where 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer last month...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been charged in a deadly Ferguson shooting that police have called accidental. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Jerry Lee Underwood of Riverview faces charges of first-degree manslaughter and armed criminal action in Friday's fatal shooting of Reginald Hamblin...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — City leaders in Ferguson, Missouri are pledging their full cooperation with a federal civil-rights investigation into their police department following the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown. The unarmed black man was shot and killed August 9th by a white officer, Darren Wilson...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A person briefed on the matter says the Justice Department plans to open an investigation into the practices of the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. The person said the investigation, which follows a police officer's shooting of an unarmed black man on August 9th, could be announced as early as today...