The US National Guard has begun withdrawing from Ferguson, where there has been unrest since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old nearly two weeks ago.

US Attorney General Eric Holder sought to reassure the people of Ferguson about the inquiry into the shooting death of a black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

US attorney general Eric Holder met the officer in charge of security in the Missouri suburb of Ferguson yesterday hours after nearly 50 protesters were arrested in the 11th straight night of demonstrations over the killing of an unarmed black teenager by a white police officer.

The militarisation of policing must stop in wake of Ferguson shooting, writes Joseph D. McNamara

America’s attorney general has ordered a new post-mortem examination on a black teenager whose shooting by a white police officer sparked protests in Missouri.

Police arrested seven protesters in Ferguson, Missouri, early yesterday as they imposed a curfew aimed at quelling days of violence that erupted after an unarmed black teenager was shot dead by a white police officer

The first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, where a black teenager was shot by a white police officer while walking down the street, ended with tear gas and arrests of some protesters.

An American teenager who strangled and stabbed a nine-year-old neighbour because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone has been jailed for life.

A MISSOURI man and his four sons were charged with the ritualistic sexual abuse of his six grandchildren and police were yesterday searching the family farm for bodies that may be buried there.

Violent storms tore through four Midwestern states, killing three people in northern Missouri, damaging dozens of homes and leaving thousands without power.

Black activists today called for the firing of police officers who were shown on live television swinging night sticks and punching and kicking a suspect after a car chase in St Louis, USA.

A dam in rural Missouri failed this morning, washing away homes and vehicles and leaving at least one person missing, authorities said.

Police today charged a woman accused of strangling an eight-months’-pregnant woman and cutting the baby from her womb in a macabre attack that shocked America.