| 1 | Ferguson will remain under a state of emergency for at least another night, county officials said on Wednesday. |
| 2 | The state of emergency, which gives the St. Louis County police oversight of security in the city, was declared after a shooting near a protest Sunday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown. |
| 3 | The decision came after two nights of relatively peaceful protests, with the police reporting no arrests during a demonstration Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. |
| 4 | County Executive Steve Stenger said he believed it was "prudent to continue the state of emergency for at least the next 24 hours." |