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People protesting a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown thwarted shoppers and blocked traffic near the police headquarters.

Author LINDA GRAY SEXTON has just written "Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton" (Little, Brown), her seventh book. She spent a long time coming to terms with her relationship with her mother, who committed suicide in 1974. REV.: Language commentator GEOFFREY NUNBERG tells us about his hand held electronic dictionary.

We take a moment to remember those killed in yesterday's mass shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo, N.Y.

During the 18th century, approximately 60,000 convicts were shipped from England to America and sold as indentured servants in the colonies. Today, a museum in Maryland remembers them.

The great singer and pianist Ray Charles died Thursday, June 10, at the age of 73. He was about to go back on tour, but died of complications of liver disease. Charles shaped American music since the 1950s, at first copying the styles of black vocalists like Nat King Cole and Charles Brown. But he soon developed a style all his own. His career grew along with Atlantic records, which signed him as a fledgling label. Charles' first hit was "I've Got a Woman" in 1955. He went on to record more bluesy, gospel-charged hits, country, jazz and rock. He spoke after the release of his four CD box-set Ray Charles: The Complete Country and Western Recordings 1959-1986. (Rebroadcast from Oct. 19, 1998.)

James Brown once remarked that singer Usher Raymond was "the Godson of Soul." With an accolade like that, it's no wonder that Usher is one of the bestselling artists in American music history. Usher's soon-to-be released seventh studio album is called Looking 4 Myself.

A former Willsboro, New York official has pleaded guilty to stealing from the town and the county fair.

Two environmental groups are calling on New York State officials to better implement a sewage pollution notification law. State officials, meanwhile, say…

A St. Louis County prosecutor is expected to announce the decision of a grand jury that is considering whether to indict a Ferguson, Mo., police officer in the shooting death of Michael Brown.

Analysis: As photos of officer Darren Wilson spread on social media, so did skepticism about his testimony.