By Marie French Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's legislative session began with hundreds of protesters shutting down the Senate, demanding changes to state law in response to the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. It ended Friday with the Senate again shut down — this time because of its […]

By Jake Pearson and Tom Hays Associated Press NEW YORK — Sheila Beasley was struggling to clean up after her beloved Rottweiler, Rocky, on a Bronx sidewalk on a December day in 2008 when she briefly put his leash down — a move spotted by a nearby plainclothes police officer who promptly wrote her a […]

Thousands of mourners and officers from around the country paid their respects to 25-year-old Officer Liquori Tate Source: Police Updates Thousands attend funeral for 2nd slain Miss. officer