A Missouri inmate took his final breath early Wednesday morning before the state executed him for sexually assaulting and beating a 63-year-old woman to death with a hammer in 1998.
In August, “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart criticized Fox News personalities for complaining about how events surrounding the Michael Brown case were being labeled as a racial matter. “Race is there and it is a constant. You’re tired of hearing about it. Imagine how f—ing exhausting it is living it,” said Stewart.
High school and college students in several U.S. cities ditched class on Monday to protest against a grand jury decision not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson, who fatally shot an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in August. Anger from the decision swelled in the St. Louis suburb and across the country over Thanksgiving weekend.
Two FBI agents were shot near St. Louis, Missouri in Friday, but the incident was not "not directly related to the Ferguson protests," an FBI spokeswoman said.
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a death row inmate's appeal just hours before his execution. The state of Missouri executed Leon Taylor some time after midnight Wednesday morning for a homicide committed 20 years ago.
A St. Louis district court overturned the state's same-sex marriage ban but the decision only applies to St. Louis County, leaving the rest of the state in limbo.
Missouri has become the latest state to legalize same-sex marriage after a St. Louis circuit judge ruled on Wednesday that the state's ban is unconstitutional.
Thousands of the spiders populated the house when the new owners moved in, prompting a years-long legal battle and the loss of their home to the arachnids.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the withdrawal of National Guard troops on Thursday from the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson after nearly two weeks of mostly peaceful -- but sometimes violent -- protests.
A 23-year-old African American man was fatally shot by St. Louis police after authorities say he brandished a knife and stole from a convenience store.
The curfew was enacted on Saturday, but protesters and looters defied it, clashing with police. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency and established a curfew in the suburb of Ferguson to preserve calm and order.
The police named Officer Darren Wilson as the man involved in Michael Brown's shooting and revealed that Brown had been a suspect in a robbery 30 minutes before his death.
The St. Louis County Police Department no longer has policing authority in Ferguson, Missouri, the suburban community that has been swamped with racially charged protests over the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white cop last week.
