In 2009, the chief executive of Emerson Electric Co. bluntly told investors at a Chicago conference what many of his counterparts at other manufacturing firms would only say privately.
"I'm not going to hire anybody in the United States. I'm (...)
After a decade of bitter compromises over paramilitaries and policing, Northern Ireland's power-sharing government finally fell apart this week over the abuse by farmers of a green-energy grant to burn fuels such as wood pellets instead of coal.
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The Ferguson, Missouri, city council voted unanimously on Tuesday to accept an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to reform the city's police department following the 2014 shooting of an unarmed black teenager that sparked riots, according (...)
St. Louis County on Friday ended the state of emergency it had put in effect earlier this week for Ferguson, Missouri, and surrounding areas due to Sunday's violent street protests. Ferguson saw a fresh wave of demonstrations beginning last weekend, (...)
The government of St. Louis County extended for 24 hours the state of emergency in Ferguson, Missouri, which has been the scene of protests a year after an unarmed black teenager was killed by a white police officer, according to Reuters.
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A man who opened fire on police in Ferguson, Missouri, on Sunday was gravely wounded in an ensuing gun battle with officers, the St. Louis county police chief said, after rallies commemorating the killing of Michael Brown last year turned (...)
Protesters in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson on Friday planned to clean up a drugstore damaged in this week's racially charged rioting but a line of police and National Guard troops blocked the entrance, Reuters reported.
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Authorities arrested three protesters during a third straight night of unrest in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson as tensions mount amid speculation that a grand jury could decide soon whether to indict the white police officer who killed an unarmed (...)
Demonstrators in Ferguson, Missouri, on Saturday marked two weeks since a white police officer shot dead an unarmed black teenager, while authorities reported no arrests overnight among the pockets of protesters who marched and chanted in intense (...)
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday ordered the state National Guard to begin withdrawing from Ferguson, where nightly scenes of unrest have erupted since a white police officer fatally shot an unarmed black 18-year-old nearly two weeks ago, AP (...)
Missouri's governor said on Monday he would send the National Guard into the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson where authorities used tear gas and smoke bombs to disperse a crowd protesting last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teen by police, (...)
Police fired smoke cannisters at demonstrators remaining in the street past curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, early on Sunday, in the latest clash over the shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer.
Police, who were equipped in riot gear (...)
The first night of a state-imposed curfew in Ferguson, Missouri, ended with tear gas and seven arrests, after police dressed in riot gear used armored vehicles to disperse defiant protesters who refused to leave a St. Louis suburb where a black, (...)
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said he's declared a state of emergency and is implementing a curfew in the St. Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer a week ago, AP reported.
Nixon said Saturday that the state will (...)
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said he's declared a state of emergency and is implementing a curfew in the St. Louis suburb where a black teenager was shot to death by a white police officer a week ago, AP reported.
Nixon said Saturday that the state will (...)
The Ryder Cup used to be far more meaningful on the other side of the Atlantic.
One reason the Europeans play with so much passion and purpose is because they represent their tour, not just their continent. For years, they were coach to the US PGA (...)
J.B. Holmes tugged on his black glove, steadied his eyes down the fairway of the 594-yard 10th hole at Valhalla and pounded a tee shot with such force that Raymond Floyd, an assistant captain at the Ryder Cup, could only shake his head.
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Padraig Harrington enjoys few moments more than the walk down 18th fairway of a century-old links course, especially with a four-shot lead in the British Open and the engraver putting the final touches on the oldest trophy in golf.
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Kenny Perry joined Tiger Woods as the only three-time winners of the Memorial on Sunday, taking a big step toward joining the No. 1 player in the world on the US Ryder Cup team this autumn.
With every contender in full retreat on the back nine, the (...)