Mike Brown shooting

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of sometimes-violent protests. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced the decision Monday evening. A grand jury of nine whites and three […]

On August 17th, Jay Kanzler, the attorney for the store police allege was robbed by Michael Brown spoke to CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield on the air about the store owners’ thoughts on the surveillance footage released on Friday, August 15th. “First of all, my clients have never said that that is Michael Brown in the video, in fact […]

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri teenager fatally shot by police suffered a bullet wound to his right arm that may have occurred when he put his hands up or while his back was turned to the shooter, “but we don’t know,” a pathologist hired by the teen’s family said Monday. An independent autopsy conducted […]

NEW YORK (AP) — An unarmed black teenager killed by a white officer in Missouri was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy has found. The New York Times reported  that the autopsy by Dr. Michael Baden, a former New York City chief medical examiner, found that one […]

EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama is getting off the island. In a rare move for him, the president took a break in the middle of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to return to Washington on Sunday night for meetings with Vice President Joe Biden and other advisers on the U.S. military campaign in Iraq […]

  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Holder on Sunday ordered a federal medical examiner to perform another autopsy on a black Missouri teenager whose fatal shooting by a white police officer has spurred a week of rancorous and sometimes-violent protests in suburban St. Louis. The “extraordinary circumstances” surrounding the death of 18-year-old Michael […]

In the latest development in the fast-moving case of the police shooting of 18-year-old Mike Brown in Ferguson, Missouri last weekend, police have released raw surveillance video of the alleged “robbery” at a convenience store. In it, what appears to be Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson are in the store, at the counter and […]

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 […]

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A suburban St. Louis police chief on Friday identified the officer whose fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager ignited days of heated protests, and released documents alleging the teen was killed after a robbery in which he was suspected of stealing a $48.99 box of cigars.  Ferguson Police Chief Thomas […]

If you had to choose between St. Louis-born rapper Nelly and Real Housewives of Atlanta star Phaedra Parks to comment publicly on the Mike Brown murder in Ferguson, Missouri, surely you’d figured Nelly would be the one. You’d be entirely wrong. Phaedra, apparently on her own accorded headed down to Ferguson with no camera crew […]

President Barack Obama on Thursday appealed for “peace and calm” on the streets of a St. Louis suburb besieged by violent clashes between police and crowds protesting the shooting death of an unarmed teenager. “I know emotions are raw right now in Ferguson and there are certainly passionate differences about what has happened,” Obama said […]