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Jesse T. Kline, who carried a long rifle Wednesday outside the Kenosha County Courthouse, was fired from the Ferguson, Missouri, police force in 2018.

Chicago radio host Eric Ferguson said Friday he is stepping away from the popular morning program he has helmed at WTMX-FM for 25 years following allegations of inappropriate behavior by female former colleagues.

In complaints made public Tuesday in court filings, former WTMX co-host Melissa McGurren alleged Eric Ferguson subjected her to an “unbearable hostile work environment” and the management did nothing about it for years.

A former assistant producer alleges Ferguson coerced sexual favors then punished her when she refused to resume an “unwelcome sexual relationship.”

Lotts is frustrated by the pace of the investigation into Martin's death. (AP Photo by Jim Salter) (Jim Salter)Audio from an inquest into the shooting death of Derontae Martin offers widely conflicting accounts of how the young Black man died inside a rural Missouri home during a party in April. He said the man told him "that murder was the easiest thing in the world to get by with.”The homeowner gave a different account of that conversation. He said he had approached Lawler about helping in case a protest over Martin's death turned violent. A May demonstration over Martin's death drew about 100 protesters to Fredericktown.

Audio from an inquest into the shooting death of Derontae Martin offers widely conflicting accounts of how the young Black man died inside a rural Missouri home during a party in April.

More than 985,000 electric customers across Louisiana woke up Wednesday in the dark again, with complete power restoration potentially weeks away. More than 768,000 of those outages were from Entergy, the state’s largest power provider.

Prof Neil Ferguson says there could be as many as 200,000 cases a day as restrictions ease.

The Chicago Police Department has struggled to hire an adequate number of Black applicants to reflect the racial makeup of the city, Chicago’s government watchdog said in a report on Thursday.

Indiana man with autism helped home by Alabama deputies William Bolin, 23, center, is pictured with Morgan County Sgt. Ferguson and Cullman County Deputy Dickerson, two of the dozens of law enforcement officials who helped the Indianapolis, Indiana, man with autism make his way home after acquaintances robbed and abandoned him at a gas station in Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday, July 4, 2021. (Morgan County Sheriff's Office)MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. — William Bolin thought he was taking a Fourth of July weekend road trip to the beach with some “friends” and, instead, found himself robbed and stranded in Montgomery, Alabama, on Sunday night. Ferguson, then connected with a Limestone County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant near Huntsville, Alabama, and Ferguson slipped Bolin $20, wishing him well on his continued journey, WXIN reported. He is 23 years... Posted by Morgan County Sheriff's Office on Monday, July 5, 2021©2021 Cox Media Group

Ferguson Journalists Lawsuit FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2014, file photo Edward Crawford Jr., returns a tear gas canister fired by police who were trying to disperse protesters in Ferguson, Mo. Three journalists with Al Jazeera America who were tear-gassed during a protest in Ferguson, after Michael Brown's death in 2014 have settled a lawsuit with the county whose SWAT team fired the tear gas. St. Charles County agreed to pay $280,000, according to the law firm that represented the journalists. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP) (Robert Cohen)Three journalists with Al Jazeera who were tear-gassed during a protest in Ferguson, Missouri, after Michael Brown's death in 2014 have settled a lawsuit with the county whose SWAT team fired the tear gas. St. Charles County agreed to pay $280,000, according to the law firm Lathrop GPM, which represented the journalists.

Scientists say they are still uncertain about the size of a third wave, but vaccination will be key.

In a 2020 Gallup poll, confidence in police dropped to the lowest reported level in the survey's history.

A year after George Floyd's death, it's not just civilians who'll be reflecting on what happened.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday announced a deal with aldermen to create an online database of closed complaints against Chicago police officers.

Niall Ferguson examines the reasons for historical calamities.

A joint City Council committee debated an ordinance on Friday that would mandate an online database of closed complaints against Chicago police officers dating back almost 30 years, a plan Mayor Lori Lightfoot has said she opposes.

Ferguson has also pleaded guilty in a separate case alleging he and his son along with another associate tried to intimidate a witness against him after the drug and gun charges were unveiled in 2018. Prosecutors said that the day Ferguson was released on bond, he visited the victim, a former business partner, at his suburban warehouse and urged him to ignore a grand jury subpoena.

Officers are required to turn on body cameras during arrests and other confrontations, but department leaders acknowledged that the cameras often weren’t rolling, Ferguson wrote. His office said that less than 1/5 of arrest reports indicated there was bodycam footage of the arrest. Only 43% of uses of force were caught on bodycams, the report states. Many officers weren’t properly equipped after reporting to locations other than the districts, where the cameras are kept, Ferguson wrote.

Ferguson opened the investigation into Johnson’s conduct shortly after he was found asleep at the wheel at 34th Place and Aberdeen Street in the Bridgeport neighborhood on the night of Oct. 16, 2019. Johnson publicly blamed the incident on his failure to take blood pressure medication but privately told Mayor Lori Lightfoot he had “a couple of drinks” with dinner that evening, which she disclosed in an interview with the Sun-Times.

"The Power of August" "The Power of August" looks back at transformational moments in American civil rights history that happened in the month of August. Anchored by Maurice DuBois, "The Power of August" is comprised of four acts, each told in eight minutes and 46 seconds — the approximate duration of time a Minneapolis police officer had his knee on George Floyd's neck. Each act explores stories of powerful and historic August events, beginning with Emmett Till's murder, then the March on Washington, Ferguson and the power of the vote in 2020.

2019, file photo, Rep. William Lacy Clay, right, D-Mo., speaks with St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson after a news conference in St. Louis. Come January, shell almost certainly be representing the St. Louis suburb in Congress, making her the most prominent of many Ferguson protesters who have turned to politics. The district that covers St. Louis and north St. Louis County is overwhelmingly Democratic, and Bush is heavily favored in November against her little-known Republican challenger, Anthony Rogers. He was replaced by another Ferguson activist, Rasheen Aldridge, who is just 26. Zaki Baruti, another leading Ferguson activist, said he recognized Bush's potential during the protests and helped convince her to run for U.S. Senate in 2016.

Jonathan Smith, the executive director of the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, will lead the three-person panel reviewing policing policies at issue in the death of Elijah McClain, Sentinel Colorado reported Tuesday. Three officers stopped McClain as he walked down an Aurora street on Aug, 23, 2019 after a 911 caller reported him as suspicious. The Justice Department division is responsible for investigations of civil rights violations by law enforcement, juvenile justice and mental health and disability agencies. Last year, the local district attorney said he could not file charges against the officers because a pathologist could not determine whether the officers' actions caused McClain's death. Federal authorities recently revealed they have been researching since last year into whether they should launch a civil rights investigation into McClains death.

This past week, Delrish Moss was sworn in as the first African-American police chief of Ferguson, Missouri. He's taking over nearly two years after a white Ferguson officer killed an unarmed teenager, setting off protests nationwide. Jeff Pegues has more.

Delrish Moss was planning to retire in September after more than three decades as a cop. That all changed when he got an emergency call to overhaul the Ferguson, Missouri police department. Jeff Pegues spoke with him about the task ahead.

A commission appointed by the governor of Missouri issued a report Monday calling for sweeping reforms that address poverty as well as policing. Michelle Miller has more.

GOP presidential candidate Ben Carson is surging in the polls. The neurosurgeon visited Ferguson, Missouri, and talked to CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett about the death of Michael Brown and the Black Lives Matter movement.

One year after riots broke out in Ferguson, Missouri over the death of Michael Brown at the hands of police officers, the president talks criminal justice reforms and how far the nation still has to go

A group calling themselves the "Oath Keepers" has begun armed patrols around Ferguson, MO. But officials say the group is making an already tense environment worse. Reuters reporter Scott Malone spoke to CBSN about police concerns.

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Police maintain control in Ferguson, Missouri, during protests despite the presence of heavily armed groups. CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann has details for CBSN.

Paula Reid, CBS News Justice Department Reporter, joins UTTM to discuss the DoJ response to the recent violence in Ferguson and their efforts to reform the Ferguson PD.

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New video captures the moment shots were fired in Ferguson on the anniversary of Michael Brown's death. CBS News Producer Jonathan Blakely recounts the experience for CBSN.

Shots were fired in Ferguson, Missouri on the anniversary of the controversial shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown. CBS News Correspondent Don Champion has more for CBSN.

A protester has critical injuries after a police-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Gunfire rang out just before midnight, and dozens of shots were fired. Four officers struck the one man after he opened fire on their unmarked police van. The violence happened after a day of peaceful rallies in Ferguson where many gathered to mark the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown's death. Don Champion reports from Ferguson.

One year ago, Michael Brown was killed during a confrontation with Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. The shooting sparked riots across the U.S. and put police procedures under scrutiny. Don Champion is in Ferguson where hundreds came out to remember Michael Brown.

President of NAACP Cornell William Brooks believes there has been a “seismic shift” in the American attitude towards race relations and policing in this country, but there has there has not been adequate legislative action to back recent momentum.

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on the GOP debates and Ferguson one year later.

The latest on the 2016 presidential campaign, the first Republican debate, and Ferguson one year later, with business mogul Donald Trump, GOP candidate Carly Fiorina, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, Dr. Ben Carson, NAACP Cornell William Brooks, and others.

Nearly a year after the shooting death of Michael Brown rocked Ferguson, Missouri, there are grassroots efforts underway aimed at helping the area's youth avoid the consequences of poverty and unemployment. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports.

As the new interim police chief in Ferguson, Missouri, Andre Anderson knows the town is still recovering from the shooting death of Michael Brown. CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller met up with Anderson to see how he's working to help fix the department and heal the community.

A new Department of Justice report says the police response to protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, was flawed, ineffective, and inconsistent. CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues reports.

Washington Post reporter Michael Fletcher explains the difference between the looting and violence in Baltimore vs. Ferguson, Mo. protests.

CBS News’ Paula Reid looks at whether the changes made to correct discriminatory policing in East Haven, Connecticut can be applied to police reform in Ferguson, Missouri.

Fixing Ferguson Lawyers from the US Justice Department will head to Ferguson next week to start implementing reforms after a report found widespread racial bias in the police department and courts. CBS News Justice Department Reporter, Paula Reid, spoke to Vanita Gupta, acting head of the Civil Rights division at the Department of Justice in her first on-camera interview.

Ferguson shooting suspect claims he was not targeting officers Missouri police are holding a man who they say confessed to shooting two police officers in Ferguson. While Jeffrey Williams says police were not his target, he's being called a "demonstrator" by the prosecution. Activists worry that police tying him and his arrest to their movement could complicate their mission of non-violence. Dean Reynolds reports.

3/15: Suspect arrested in shooting of 2 officers in Ferguson; Student makes big bucks from old basketball shoes Missouri officials say they have a suspect in custody after two officers were shot earlier this week in Ferguson during a protest. Authorities say videos and tips from witnesses helped them identify 20-year-old Jeffrey Williams; and, success often comes by thinking outside of the box. Chase Reed, a 17-year-old high school student, has gained a foothold in the business of used basketball sneakers.

Ferguson on edge as hunt for gunmen continues In Ferguson, Missouri, the manhunt continues for whoever shot and wounded two police officers during a protest. Police say they're following up on more than a dozen tips and have asked the community for help. Craig Boswell reports from Ferguson with the latest.

Ferguson tries to get back to "normal" A $10,000 reward has been offered for information leading to an arrest in the shooting of two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri. The shooting came amid heightened racial tensions that were reignited by the release of a Justice Department investigation. Dean Reynolds reports on what police officers are doing to try to ease the tensions.

3/12: Two officers shot in "ambush" during Ferguson protests; Glimpsing your "future self" helps you save for retirement Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the shooting of two cops in Ferguson, Missouri. An officer was shot in the shoulder, and a second in the face; and, according to a recent survey, 2 out of 5 young adults don't think about saving for retirement. But when faced with the realities of the future, that sentiment appears to change.

Two officers shot in "ambush" during Ferguson protests Attorney General Eric Holder condemned the shooting of two cops in Ferguson, Missouri. An officer was shot in the shoulder, and a second in the face. Both are recovering from what is being called "an ambush." Dean Reynolds reports.

After shooting of officers, SWAT teams raid home in Ferguson Authorities say people have been taken in for questioning after two police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday. CBS News national correspondent Dean Reynolds joins CBSN with an update.