Gift Kamau was last seen on the morning of March 30 leaving her home in Madison, Illinois, on her way to class at St. Louis University.
A shooting spree in St. Louis left one person dead and six others critically injured on Friday.
Jones, a fierce champion of the Black Lives Matter movement, received 30.4 percent of the vote in the democratic mayoral primary but ultimately lost to Alderman Lyda Krewson.
Juan Thompson, a former reporter for The Intercept was apprehended on Friday for allegedly making bomb threats against Jewish centers.
Ferguson officials have missed crucial deadlines that were set by the Department of Justice in efforts to reform policing procedures.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Illinois has lost more people than any other state during the course of the year.
A leaked photo shows a North County Cooperative officer wearing gloves, holding the arm of a corpse and giving a thumbs up.
St. Louis Schools plan to draw down its long-running school desegregation program. Observers say the program achieved integration, but mixed academic results.
The St. Louis police secretly settled dozens of cases. Many of those cases have not been reviewed for possible criminal charges.
Her reasoning for going off the grid? "She just wanted to get away from it all. She didn't want to be in school anymore" says a police source.
