Ferguson

The St. Louis suburb where Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer has agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that accused it of operating a so-called debtors’ prison.
Yolanda Dillion, 54, was stabbed to death by a passenger in what a sheriff said was a random act of deadly violence.
The head of the U.S. Air Force Academy spoke out when racial slurs against 5 cadets appeared on message boards.
Ferguson activist Darren Seals tried to warn the rest of America that the Black Lives Matter organization was not the sacred cow everyone believed it to be.
Michael Brown, an 18-year-old Black man, was fatally shot in Ferguson, Missouri. The former police officer involved won't face charges.
Ella Jones will also be the Missouri city's first female mayor. She got involved in city government after the 2014 police killing of Michael Brown.
Chief Jason Armstrong, who joined the department last year, called the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown "a wake-up call to law enforcement."
Frank Nucera allegedly slammed a Black teen’s head on a door and regularly used racial slurs. His trial raises major questions about police oversight.
The legislation, which would raise the standard for police use of force, was announced on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death.