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Charges filed against Washington Post reporter who covered 2014 Ferguson protests

A Washington Post reporter arrested last year while covering protests in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager has been charged with trespassing and interfering with a police officer, the newspaper said on Monday. Wesley Lowery, 25, was arrested after police asked him and another reporter to leave a McDonald’s restaurant being used as a staging area for press coverage of the demonstrations that occurred after

Peaceful rallies in Ferguson give way to violence, gunfire

A man was critically wounded in a gun battle with police as street protests turned violent in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday night, marring a day of peaceful rallies to mark the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white officer one year ago. The death of Michael Brown, 18, and a grand jury’s decision to spare the officer, Darren Wilson, from criminal charges sparked a prolonged wave of