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The body of an activist from St. Louis who led protests about the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in 2014 was found with a gunshot wound in the charred remains of a vehicle on Tuesday morning, according to the police and news accounts. The activist, Darren Seals, 29, was found inside the vehicle on Diamond Drive in Riverview in St. Louis County around 1:50 a.m., the St. Louis County Police Department said in a statement. The vehicle had been on fire and he was found after the flames were extinguished.

Westbrook's parents admit he got in trouble with the law when he was younger for at least one break-in but said he was getting his life together.

FORT WORTH, Texas - A Fort Worth teenager is dead after police said he tried to break into a house and was shot. The incident happened at about noon on Wednesday in the 1100 block of East Jefferson Avenue. The homeowner said shortly after he returned home from work he heard a noise at his back window. The man said he pulled back the blinds and saw a young man with a crow bar trying to pry the window open. “He was coming in the house. He scared me. I didn’t know what else to do,” he said. “I put...