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Utah police find girl, 12, dead in field; say likely homicide

The West Valley City Police Department said the girl’s mother approached two officers at a 7-Eleven store at 1:30 a.m. and told them her daughter had been missing since midnight. “Evidence of trauma and indicators at scene suggest 12-year-old girl’s death is homicide,” it said. West Valley City is a western suburb of Salt Lake City.

A year after Ferguson, U.S. civil rights groups gather pace

By Edward McAllister NEW YORK (Reuters) – Taurean Russell was preparing to coach high school football in St. Louis last Aug. 9 when his Twitter feed began flashing images of a black teenager lying facedown on the street of a nearby suburb, shot dead by police.     Within hours came photos of the dead 18-year-old’s stepfather, stony-faced, holding a cardboard sign that read: “Ferguson police just executed my unarmed son!!!”