BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Police in Louisiana say that several officers have been shot in Baton Rouge while on duty. The shooting happened early Sunday, less than 1 mile from police headquarters. Baton Rouge Police Sgt. Don Coppola did not know the extent of the injuries or give the precise number of officers injured.…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a woman who wanted to keep her son in a St. Louis charter school after she moved. La’Shieka White sued the Voluntary Interdistrict Choice Corporation in May claiming her son was unable to keep attending the Gateway Science Academy because of his…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Protesters briefly closed a section of highway in downtown St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that activists supporting Black Lives Matter blocked Highway 40 in downtown St. Louis for about 15 minutes on Saturday afternoon. Protesters included participants at Netroots Nation, a national conference of progressive activists being held in…