Hands Up: Unrest returned to the streets of Ferguson, Mo. last night after police accused teenager Michael Brown of a crime without explaining how and why he was shot dead by a police officer. Several stores were looted and rioters threw Molotov cocktails.

Police now say the young man killed a week ago was a suspect in a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store. Grainy video shows a large black youth intimidating the store clerk while taking a box described as cigars worth $48.99. Michael Brown, 18, who was later killed, and his friend Dorian Johnson, were suspected of taking the cigars. The allegation has been met with disbelief. The Brown family lawyer said, “It’s bad enough they assassinated him, and now they’re trying to assassinate his character.”

But the family admits it was their son on the surveillance tape at the store.

The police officer who investigated the store incident says he also went to the site of the Brown shooting soon after. His report says, “After viewing Brown and reviewing the video, I was able to confirm that Brown is the primary suspect in this (convenience store) incident.” Police said the officer who shot Brown was unaware of the convenience store robbery or that Brown was a suspect.

Texas Two Step: A Texas grand jury has handed up a felony indictment against Gov. Rick Perry, accusing him of abuse of official power and coercion of a public servant for trying to force a county district attorney out of office. Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, refused to resign after pleading guilty to drunk driving and serving 45 days. Perry, a Republican, then threatened that if Lehmberg didn’t quit he would cut off $7.3 million in state funding to an office that investigates public corruption. And that’s illegal. Perry is angling for another run at the presidency, but he will be booked like any common criminal and arraigned at the courthouse a few blocks from the governor’s mansion.

Ukraine: The army says it destroyed part of a Russian armored column that crossed the border into Ukraine while aid trucks wait on the Russian side. Russia denies its armored vehicles entered Ukraine. There’s no report on whether the occupants of the vehicles were Russian, or pro-Russian separatists.

Iraq: A US drone struck an ISIS convoy after a massacre in a Yazidi village. Authorities say ISIS fighters killed 80 Yazidi men and abducted women and children.

Immigration: Thirty-five people were found in a shipping container unloaded at the Tilbury Docks near London. The people described as being from the Indian subcontinent were suffering dehydration and hypothermia. One man has since died.

The Obit Page: Jay Adams, one of the boys from “Dogtown” who revolutionized skateboarding and made it a radical international sport, has died of a heart attack at age 53 while on a surfing vacation in Mexico. Dogtown was a rundown area on the border of Los Angeles and Venice, Calif. Adams and the Zephyr Skate Team were made famous in the 2001 documentary “Dogtown and Z-Boys.” Adams was in jail on a drug charge when the movie premiered. He was in and out of prison, but friends said he’d gone straight and sober the past six years.

Virginia Peanuts: The prosecution in the corruption trial of former Virginia Gov. Gov. Robert McDonnell and his wife rested this week after putting on a display of gifts the couple had accepted from a businessman hawking diet supplements. They included designer clothes, golf equipment, a painting, and a box of the diet supplement Antabloc. The jury previously was shown a Rolex watch Maureen McDonnell accepted from businessman Jonnie Williams and then gave her husband.

   Prosecutors say Williams lavished the McDonnells with money and gifts to promote his pills. The gifts, including $15,000 toward the McDonnells’ daughter’s wedding, totaled $165,000. In damning testimony, Mrs. McDonnell’s former chief of staff described her as “a nutbag” with raging anger who hoarded gifts in closets at the executive mansion.

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