Ferguson takes step to resolve lawsuit with DOJ

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — One year after the U.S. Department of Justice issued a report highly critical of police and court practices in Ferguson, the city where the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown led to unrest and helped spark the Black Lives Matter movement may be nearing an agreement to end a lawsuit filed by the federal agency. The City Council in the St. Louis suburb on Tuesday approved the first reading of a measure to accept an agreement with the Justice Department, and the panel