HAZELWOOD, Missouri -- After high school students across the country walked out of class earlier this week calling for greater police accountability, one school district in the very Missouri county where teenager Michael Brown was killed chose to highlight the repercussions for students who left their classrooms.

Hazelwood School District...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Protesters demonstrated in front of a federal building in St. Louis and outside of the Ferguson Police Department on Wednesday night in response to a New York grand jury’s decision not to indict the police officer who placed Eric Garner in a chokehold that led to his...

A police officer who choked an unarmed man to death on a public sidewalk will not face trial. This is the second recent high-profile case in which a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer who had killed an unarmed black civilian -- first Michael Brown in Ferguson,...

ST. LOUIS -- Demonstrators gathered Tuesday night outside of a sports bar that disavowed the St. Louis Rams after a few players on Sunday made the "hands up" motion that has become synonymous with support for Michael Brown, the teenager shot and killed by a police...

DELLWOOD, Mo. -- As 28 years of hard work burned before her eyes, Juanita Morris looked at her television in shock. Her business, Juanita’s Fashion R Boutique, was set ablaze on Nov. 24, hours after a prosecutor announced that Officer Darren Wilson would not be indicted for the killing of...

ST. LOUIS -- Ferguson protesters gathered in a church basement to celebrate Thanksgiving with one another on the eve of Black Friday, before beginning active boycotts of Walmart and Target stores.

A little over 100 protesters, churchgoers and volunteers celebrated Thanksgiving at St. Luke's African Methodist Episcopal Church on Thursday...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Protests, gunshots, fires and tear gas enveloped this small city on Monday night after St. Louis County prosecutor Robert McCulloch announced that a grand jury had returned no indictment for Police Officer Darren Wilson.

Anger erupted outside the police department headquarters when what was long feared by...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- The mother of Michael Brown, the unarmed 18-year-old shot dead by a police officer in this St. Louis suburb on Aug. 9, urged protesters to stay peaceful Saturday night as they waited to find out if a grand jury will indict the officer for killing...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Police officers arrested at least three demonstrators Thursday evening after a protest temporarily blocked traffic.

After warning protesters to clear the road, officers with shields, batons and helmets advanced on the crowd and arrested two women and one man. It wasn't clear why the three were...

WASHINGTON -- The Million Mask March, an Anonymous-affiliated group of protests, reached both the nation's capitol and Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday. In Washington, protesters who were organized outside of the Department of Justice building gave varied reasons for their demonstrations, from solidarity with Ferguson protesters to speaking out...

WASHINGTON -- Voters in Ferguson, Missouri, faced long lines at polls Tuesday after a push by voting rights advocates encouraging residents of the St. Louis suburb to vote.

Some voters in Ferguson, where there have been protests since the police shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in August, were still...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- As demonstrations have dragged on in this suburb of St. Louis since a police officer killed Michael Brown in August, some protesters have begun focusing their anger not only at the police but also at members of the media they believe have misrepresented both the...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Five people, including a legal observer who said he was simply walking back to his car, were arrested outside the Ferguson Police Department Wednesday night as protesters gathered to call for the arrest of Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Demonstrators calling for the arrest of Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown in August, are anticipating that the officer will not be charged. Many of them are predicting widespread protests if the grand jury reviewing the case decides to acquit Wilson....

ST. LOUIS -- The locations of demonstrators who descended on the St. Louis area over the weekend to push for national reforms regarding police brutality led to some heated confrontations with area residents.

The "weekend of resistance" known as "Ferguson October" was in response to the death of...

ST. LOUIS -- A nonviolent sit-in at a QuikTrip gas station was interrupted early Sunday when a police officer repeatedly jabbed a protester with a baton and other officers pepper-sprayed the crowd.

Roughly 100 protesters were at the sit-in, which began at about 1 a.m. on Sunday. Arrests did...

ST LOUIS -- Over a thousand protesters from as far away as Palestine marched in St. Louis on Saturday in support of an 18-year-old killed by a police officer in the nearby suburb of Ferguson and the broader issue of police brutality.

ST. LOUIS -- Police officers, some of them outfitted in riot gear, clashed with hundreds of angry protesters early Friday morning in a St. Louis neighborhood where a black teenager had been killed by an off-duty police officer this week.

Some demonstrators in the crowd burned American flags, smashed the...

ST. LOUIS -- Hundreds of protesters gathered Wednesday night in the diverse South St. Louis neighborhood of Shaw, after an earlier incident in which a white off-duty city police officer shot and killed a black 18-year-old who police said had fired on the officer.

After word of the...