We would like to begin by saying that we are filled with sadness at the loss of Rick Hillis. He was a valuable member of the community that we all call home. We wish to extend our condolences to his wife,...

  Earlier this summer, two friends from Ferguson, Missouri, a northern munincipality in St. Louis, were walking home in the middle of the street when they were stopped by a local police officer....

A few weeks ago, a teenage boy named Michael Brown was shot and killed after an altercation with a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.  There has since been rioting and protesting at the site of...