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ST. LOUIS -- A man was charged Thursday after authorities said he pulled his car into a group of demonstrators protesting a police shooting in St. Louis, injuring three people.  Mark Colao, 59, faces a felony count of resisting arrest by fleeing and misdemeanor charges of leaving the scene of an accident and operating a vehicle in a careless and imprudent manner. It's not clear if he has an attorney who can comment on his behalf. Police said the three people suffered minor injuries Wednesday night during a candlelight vigil and protest in honor of Kenny "Kiwi" Herring, who was fatally shot by officers Tuesday after allegedly stabbing one of them. Relatives and friends have said Herring was a transgender woman. Police and witnesses offered differing accounts of what happened.  The vigil began at a community garden that honors transgender people . Activist Heather De Mian said Thursday that after the vigil, 40 to 50 people marched to an intersection and blocked it to...

By Craig Hlavaty , Chron.com / Houston Chronicle Updated 11:50 am, Thursday, August 10, 2017 Photo: Google Maps Image 1 of / 23 Caption Close Image 1 of 23 Harris County investigators reported Thursday morning that an hours old female infant was found safe at a north side apartment complex . The child had apparently been abandoned.  Harris County investigators reported Thursday morning that an hours old female infant was found safe at a north side apartment complex . The child had apparently been abandoned.  Photo: Google Maps Image 2 of 23 Image 3 of 23 Custody dispute and a new identity Elaine Yates was found in Houston Jan. 26, 2017, with her two daughters, who disappeared from Rhode Island with her in 1985. Charges were later dropped against Yates, who was living under the name Liana Waldberg, with snatching them. less Custody dispute and a new identity Elaine Yates was found in Houston Jan. 26, 2017, with her two daughters, who disappeared from Rhode Island with her in 198...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (WAVY) — A Newport News man has been charged after police say he intimidated young girls at a bus stop. On Thursday, two elementary school students reported a man had approached them twice in the Regency Square Apartments neighborhood on Jefferson Avenue, according to Harold Eley with the Newport News Police Department . The 9-year-old girl and 11-year-old girl said the man first approached them on April 20, that he was staring at them and said he was going to shoot them with a gun. They said the man approached them a second time on Thursday around 8:30 a.m. at the bus stop near the apartment complex , and indicated he was going to shoot them and have sex with them. “He was like looking at our butt and everything, and we thought like something was going to happen to us,” said the 11-year-old girl, who asked not to be identified. “So when we got to school, we told it straight away to the principal.” WALKER, VANDARREN (Photo by NNPD) Both girls said the suspect had ...

BARCELONA, Spain — The Latest on the Spain attacks (all times local): 5:15 a.m. Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has asked people to pray for a young Australian boy who is missing after a vehicle attack on a popular Barcelona promenade that killed 13 people. Turnbull said Saturday that the boy's mother was badly injured and is in a hospital following Friday's attack at the Las Ramblas promenade . Turnbull says the boy's family is searching for him. He did not release the boy's name. Turnbull says: "All of us as parents know the anguish his father is going through, and his whole family is going through, as they rush to seek to find him in Barcelona." Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says four Australians were injured in the attack. ___ 2:35 a.m. Police in Catalonia say they have searched two buses in their hunt for violent extremists believed responsible for a pair of deadly attacks in the northwestern region of Spain. Police say on the...