Police

President Barack Obama says he has asked Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to create a plan for a “careful and appropriate response to any potential violence” that…

When Better Together formed last year, it was already planning to examine how the region polices itself — especially because St. Louis County has so many…

A 2012 audit of the police department in Bel-Ridge is getting new attention from some members of the community's Board of Trustees. Longtime resident and…

Legal representatives of the family of Kajieme Powell say they filed a lawsuit seeking financial damages Friday. The 25-year-old was shot and killed by…

As protests have continued in the St. Louis area following August's police shooting of Michael Brown, it's not just responding officers who are feeling…

Lab results show gunshot residue was found on the 18-year-old who was fatally shot by an off-duty St. Louis police officer in the Shaw neighborhood last…

There is a phone number that Ferguson protesters share: 314-862-2249.That's the jail support number that they spread through Twitter and on fliers. Others…

It's home to just 822 residents living on 69 acres, but the city of Flordell Hills is getting its own police department. The St. Louis County suburb's…

Four young people active in the Ferguson protests joined two St. Louis County Police officers and two St. Louis Metropolitan Police officers for an…

The shooting deaths of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson and 25-year-old Kajieme Powell in St. Louis have focused a bright spotlight on the authority…