A documentary about Missouri activist and former state representative Bruce Franks Jr. was nominated Monday for an Oscar in the Documentary Short Subject category. “St. Louis Superman,” follows the story of Franks Jr., of St. Louis, who became well known ...

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The Missouri town thrust into the spotlight after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown could face eventual dissolution unless serious financial threats can be resolved, Ferguson’s acting city manager told a federal judge this week. Interim City Manager Jeffrey ...

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The Missouri town thrust into the spotlight after the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown could face eventual dissolution unless serious financial threats can be resolved, Ferguson’s acting city manager told a federal judge this week. Interim City Manager Jeffrey ...

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A Wisconsin man whose son was shot and killed by a police officer in 2004 told Missouri lawmakers on Tuesday that independent investigations into such deaths are necessary to ensure justice.

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In the days since the release of a Justice Department report that found widespread racial bias in the Ferguson Police Department, the mayor of the St. Louis suburb has become a part-time public servant in a full-time spotlight.

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The national byword for racial and policing issues is in a law school class by itself.

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Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday while demonstrators were gathered across the street — an attack the county police chief described as "an ambush" that could easily have killed both men.

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Ferguson city leaders will meet with Justice Department officials in about two weeks and provide a plan for ways to improve the police department following a scathing report released this week, Mayor James Knowles III said Friday.

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Lawyers for the parents of an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson said Thursday that they would file a civil lawsuit in Michael Brown's death.

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The Justice Department won't prosecute former a Ferguson police officer in the shooting death of an unarmed black 18-year-old, but in a scathing report released Wednesday faulted the city and its law enforcement for racial bias. (Updated)

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A Kansas City preparatory school has opted not to punish students for protesting a speech by Gov. Jay Nixon, according to a release from the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri.

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