Ferguson

I like to be a positive person, but even the optimistic side of me has a list of Missouri towns that I try to avoid whenever possible and I was born in the Show Me State.

An election that saw Republicans gain unprecedented power in Missouri has been named the state's top story of 2016 by Associated Press reporters and editors.

St. Louis County police say a man who was trying to rob three contractors working on a water-line project was killed after one of the workers shot him in the chest.

A suburban St. Louis man is accused of killing a 9-year-old girl who was inside her Ferguson home when shots were fired into a bedroom.

A 9-year-old Ferguson girl is dead and her mother injured after someone fired shots into their home.

St. Louis officials want to spend nearly $10 million to hire and train 160 additional police officers in response to a recent spate of violent crime that the mayor and police chief blame on a "Ferguson effect."

Nearly 200 people rallied in support of local law enforcement officers Sunday at the Ferguson Police Department, site of near-daily demonstrations since Michael Brown's fatal police shooting more than five months ago.

Three people have been charged in the alleged looting and burglary of a burned-out beauty supply store in Ferguson.

The annual Thanksgiving Day parade in St. Louis has been postponed because of the continued protests over Michael Brown's death and other fatal police shootings.

Hospitals report having treated at least 14 people who were injured during the unrest that followed the announcement that a grand jury decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson for killing 18-year-old Michael Brown.