US Missouri Police Use Smoke, Tear Gas On Protesters

Authorities say one person was shot and critically wounded and seven people arrested early Sunday morning as police used smoke and tear gas to enforce a curfew in the U.S. town of Ferguson, Missouri.   The town near St. Louis in the center of the country is where a black unarmed teenager was shot and killed by a white police officer on August 9.    The governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, declared a state of emergency and imposed the curfew following several nights of...

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