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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

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The number of times Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old, was fatally shot by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., according to a private autopsy.
Sophie Masloff, who rose from a tax clerk to become Pittsburgh’s first female mayor, died Sunday. She was 96.
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The going rate for a vacant home in Buffalo, N.Y., which is bucking the trend across of the country of demolishing abandoned structures.
Tweet from Missouri state Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon. Chappelle-Nadal was tear-gassed during protests last week in Ferguson over a police officer's fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager.
Rallies were held in at least 90 cities.
City Council approved orders Thursday from Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr that seek to refinance about $5.2 billion in bonds for the water department.
Nearly one-third of Virginia’s public schools will not earn full accreditation this fall after reading and science scores dropped precipitously on state-mandated standardized tests, according to state education officials.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon put the state highway patrol in charge of security in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson Thursday as concerns grew over the handling of unrest following the death of an unarmed African-American teenager in a police shooting.
Ohio's environmental regulators laid out a plan Thursday to assist cities with testing and treating their drinking water, a first step in the state's response to last week's water emergency in Toledo that left 400,000 people without clean tap water.
The town and its novice clerk have filed suit against every registered voter in the town, claiming that an election held last spring had numerous errors.