The 18-year-old Antonio Martin was said to be carrying a handgun, which he allegedly pointed at the police officer before the cop opened fire.
Almost two months to the day after black teen Michael Brown was killed by a white police officer, another St Louis teen was gunned down in St Louis.
Peaceful protests have resumed in Ferguson after the fatal shooting of teenager Michael Brown by a police officer.
Police officer Darren Wilson has not been seen in public since shooting Michael Brown, and black Americans doubt whether he will face justice.
Luther Ingram, the R&B and soul singer-songwriter best known for his hit If Loving You Is Wrong (I Don’t Want to Be Right) has died. He was 69. Ingram died on March 19 at a Belleville, Illinois, hospital after suffering for years from diabetes, kidney disease and partial blindness, his wife, Jacqui Ingram, said.
At just a hair over 43cm tall, the miniature horse is more inclined to walk under fences than jump them — and her owners have sheltered the mare from ever gaining ”circus sideshow” or ”one-trick-pony” status. As the world’s smallest horse, five-year-old Thumbelina, weighing in at 26kg, has a bigger mission.
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/ 27 September 2006
Blues guitarist Henry Townsend, who ran away from his family as a boy and stayed in St Louis for a prolific career spanning eight decades, has died at age 96. Townsend died on September 24 2006 of a pulmonary embolism in Grafton, Wisconsin, where he was being honoured by a local blues association.
Aquarium officials in St Louis in the United States hope an exhibit that opens next week and runs until September 5 will earn a Guinness World Record for the most two-headed animals on display, according to a media report. So far, the World Aquarium at the City Museum has lined up 10 two-headed snakes and turtles.
A painting by United States artist Norman Rockwell that was stolen more than 30 years ago was sold in 1988, and federal officials now are trying to find out who bought it. FBI officials said on Thursday that the agency’s Art Crime Team, created in 2004, has several leads in the theft of Rockwell’s Russian Schoolroom.
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/ 22 February 2006
Life expectancy may balloon to 100 years old in rich nations thanks to scientific advances, but such progress could widen the gap between wealthy and poor nations, according to researchers. Within the next 10 years, state-of-the-art, anti-ageing technologies could — if they come into widespread use — radically start altering global demographics.
In a heated debate rematch, Senator John Kerry accused United States President George Bush on Friday night of transforming huge budget surpluses into massive deficits with tax cuts for the rich during wartime. Bush said Kerry would have to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for ,2-trillion in new spending programmes.
President George W Bush and Senator John Kerry meet on Friday in a debate rematch as a new poll shows a shift toward the Democratic challenger. This time, Bush will be on the defensive going in, after a widely panned performance in last week’s debate, falling poll numbers, bad news out of Iraq and Friday’s release of the September jobs report.
A Missouri maker of software that has enabled users to copy DVDs and computer games soon could fold under the mounting weight of lawsuits by deep-pocketed movie studios and others, the company’s chief said. Robert Moore said on Wednesday that he’ll decide within weeks whether his 321 Studios would seek federal bankruptcy protection.
US President George Bush on Monday renewed US sanctions imposed on Libya in 1986, saying that Tripoli must follow positive overtures on unconventional arms with ”concrete steps.” Sanctions — which include a freeze on Libyan assets in the United States — have been renewed annually since they were first imposed in 1986.
At almost the last possible moment, Missouri Governor Bob Holden stayed the execution of convicted hit man Daniel Basile after an unidentified witness stepped forward.