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Guest Opinion: The Keystone XL pipeline — a quixotic objection ... Two missing Ashland teens planned to run away, police say ... Missing teen's mom hopes for safe return ... Guest Opinion: The Keystone XL pipeline — a quixotic objection ... Two missing Ashland teens planned to run away, police say ... Grand jury won't indict Ferguson cop in shooting By Jim Salter & David A. Lieb Associated Press DailyTidings.com By Jim Salter & David A. Lieb Associated Press Posted Nov. 24, 2014 @ 6:49 pm Updated Nov 24, 2014 at 6:59 PM By Jim Salter & David A. Lieb Associated Press Posted Nov. 24, 2014 @ 6:49 pm Updated Nov 24, 2014 at 6:59 PM » RELATED CONTENT • SOU students march through Ashland in Ferguson protest » Social News FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A grand jury has decided not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the death of Michael Brown, the unarmed, black 18-year-old whose fatal shooting sparked weeks of sometimes-violent protests. St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Bob McCulloch announced the decision Monday evening. A grand jury of nine whites and three blacks had been meeting weekly since Aug. 20 to consider evidence. At least nine votes would have been required to indict Wilson. The panel met in secret, a standard practice for such proceedings. The Justice Department is conducting a separate investigation into possible civil rights violations that could result in federal charges. The department also has launched a broad probe into the Ferguson Police Department, looking for patterns of discrimination. The Aug. 9 shooting inflamed tensions in the predominantly black St. Louis suburb that is patrolled by an overwhelmingly white police force. As Brown's body lay for hours in the center of a residential street, an angry crowd of onlookers gathered. Rioting and looting occurred the following night, and police responded with armored vehicles and tear gas. Protests continued for weeks — often peacefully, but sometimes turning violent, with demonstrators throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails and police firing smoke canisters, tear gas and rubber bullets. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to briefly summon the National Guard. Hours before the announcement, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon urged people to remain peaceful as he appeared at a news conference with the state's public safety director and the leaders of St. Louis city and county. "Our shared hope and expectation is that regardless of the decision, people on all sides show tolerance, mutual respect and restraint," Nixon said. Some black leaders and Brown's parents questioned McCulloch's ability to be impartial. The prosecutor's father, mother, brother, uncle and cousin all worked for the St. Louis Police Department, and his father was killed while responding to a call involving a black suspect in 1964. McCulloch was 12 at the time, and the killing became a hallmark of his initial campaign for elected prosecutor. Nixon declined to seek the removal of McCulloch in the Brown case, but he also called for McCulloch to vigorously prosecute Wilson, who had been on the Ferguson force for less than three years. Prior to that job, Wilson was an officer for nearly two years in Jennings, another St. Louis suburb. McCulloch, a Democrat, has been in office since 1991 and was re-elected to another term earlier this month. Among the cases that McCulloch's opponents cited as examples of pro-police bias was the 2000 shooting death of two men in a fast-food parking lot by two undercover drug officers in the town of Berkeley, which like Ferguson is a predominantly black suburb in what locals call North County. A federal investigation determined that Earl Murray and Ronald Beasley were unarmed and that their car had not moved forward when the officers fired 21 shots. But that inquiry also determined that the shootings were justified since the officers feared for their lives. McCulloch opted to not prosecute the two officers and characterized the victims as "bums" who "spread destruction in the community" by selling drugs. ___  Associated Press writer Alan Scher Zagier in Clayton contributed to this report. By Jim Salter & David A. Lieb Associated Press DailyTidings.com By Jim Salter & David A. 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