Ferguson: St. Louis County’s executive declared a state of emergency yesterday after street violence returned to Ferguson, Mo. with protests over police shootings. A reporter was beaten and robbed, a police officer was injured, and two teenagers wounded in a …

Ferguson: As the city marked the one-year anniversary of the shooting of teenager Michael Brown, police in Ferguson, Mo. last night shot and critically wounded a man who had been involved in a gunfight and fired at an unmarked police …

Nation: Houston authorities found eight people … five children and three adults … dead inside a home after a standoff and a brief gunfight with a man inside the house. Police had been called to do a welfare check at …

Extreme: Al-Shabab Muslim extremists are threatening more attacks on Kenya after killing 148 people at Garissa University College this week. A statement attributed to al-Shabab says, “Kenyan cities will run red with blood.” The primary gunmen were killed, but authorities …

Ferguson: Police are still hunting for at least one gunman who shot and wounded two police officers during a protest in Ferguson, Mo. Wednesday night. Both officers were treated and released. Attorney General Eric Holder called the shooter a “damn …

Ferguson: Two St. Louis County police officers were shot during demonstrations outside the Ferguson, Mo. police station last night. The shooting broke what had been a night of tense but mostly peaceful protests in the hours after Ferguson’s police chief …

Hillary E-Splains: Presidential possible Hillary Clinton explained her use of private email while she was secretary of state as a matter of “convenience.” In her first public remarks on the subject she said she didn’t want to have to use …

Nation: Forty-seven Senate Republicans sent a direct letter to Iran threatening to abandon any nuclear weapons deal reached by the Obama Administration, undercutting the authority and negotiating power of the president. The occupants of the White House are pretty irritated. …

Nation: The Justice Department says it will not bring charges against the Ferguson, Mo. police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager last summer, but at the same time says there is so much racial bias in the Ferguson police …

Softball: New England Patriot Coach Bill Belichick denied in a press conference this morning that he had anything to with the under inflation of balls in Sunday’s division championship against Indianapolis. “In my entire coaching career, I have never talked …