Hands Up: Violence flared again in the streets of Ferguson, Mo. last night with looting, shots fired, Molotov cocktails and teargas. Gov. Jay Nixon has called in the National Guard and the first troops have already arrived.

The NY Times reports that an autopsy conducted for his family shows that Michael Brown was hit by six bullets, two of them in the head, when the unarmed teenager was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo. One of the bullets hit Brown in the top of the head, suggesting he was leaning forward when he was struck with the fatal round. Four bullets hit Brown’s right arm, some of them causing multiple wounds.

The 18-year-old Brown was 6-4, 265 pounds. Officer Darren Wilson has told investigators there was a physical struggle with Brown, in which Wilson suffered minor injuries to his face, before the shooting.

Dr. Michael Baden, the famed medical examiner from New York, did the family autopsy. The official autopsy conducted by local medical examiners has not yet been released. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will perform a third autopsy.

Iraq: Kurdish forces have re-taken control of most of the Mosul Dam, still clearing mines and booby traps left by ISIS fighters. If the Kurds succeed at fully taking and holding control, it will be the biggest loss for ISIS in their battle to create their own Islamic state.

The Kurds plan to move on into the Nineveh plain to clear ISIS, so minority refugees can go home.

The Kurds have been getting big help from US air strikes, but in an odd irony of the war, the Syrian air force is also bombing ISIS at their base of in Raqqa, putting the US and Syria on the same side in the fight against ISIS.

Ukraine: Government troops have pushed into the center of the rebel-held city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. A Ukrainian fighter jet was shot down during the combat. And today an unknown number of refugees was reported killed and injured when rockets hit vehicles moving away from Luhansk. Still, the German foreign minister says there has been some moderate progress in peace talks attended by his country, Ukraine, Russia, and France.

Heist: Eight gunmen carrying AK-47s pulled off a well-coordinated raid Sunday night on a convoy carrying a Saudi Prince to a Paris airport. They made off with a suitcase stuffed with $355,000 cash and possibly sensitive diplomatic documents. The thieves appeared to know the convoy’s route to Le Bourget airport where the rich park their jets. They cut off the lead Mercedes mini-van and drove away with it, taking the driver and two Saudis with them. The three captives were later released and police found the burned out Mercedes.

Small Screen: ABC News anchor Elizabeth Vargas has returned to rehab for alcoholism. Vargas, 51, spent several weeks getting sober last fall. She has blamed her alcoholism on lifelong panic attacks.

Nation: Bourbon production has hit a 37-year high, according to the Kentucky Distillers Assn. Distillers have laid away five million barrels of bourbon for aging. New labels and small batch bourbons have fed a worldwide demand. Producers are betting demand will still be high when the new brews are ready to drink and that they won’t be left with a bourbon bubble.

Mailbox: Quoting loyal reader Luciano Guerriero, “I just read that a woman was arrested for transporting 2 kilos of cocaine in her new breast implants. In other words, she got herself busted twice.”

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