Protest

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A group calling for an independent investigation after an Ohio officer fatally shot a 13-year-old boy while investigating a reported armed robbery is planning a protest in downtown Columbus.

So, a cow walks into a supermarket. It sounds like the beginning to a dumb joke, right? Not really.

It's time for defenders of the Confederate flag in South Carolina to face the music.

BERKELEY, CA (AP) — Hundreds of protesters are blocking a major highway and train tracks in the latest demonstration in Northern California against grand jury decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of two unarmed black men.

A walk out and die-in was held this afternoon at Hamilton College in protest of the no-indict decision in Ferguson, Missouri and New York City.

Students at Hamilton College are drop dead serious about changing the justice system.

Dozens of Utica residents fought the rain to hold a demonstration at Watson-Williams park last night to protest police violence in Ferguson, Missouri and the killing of Michael Brown.

The Central New York advocacy group CNY Citizens in Action held a demonstration in front of the Hobby Lobby Store in New Hartford last night against the craft store's corporate policies on employee healthcare and contraception.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — An 84-year-old nun has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for breaking into and defacing a storage bunker holding bomb-grade uranium in a peace demonstration at a Tennessee weapons plant.

Last night on Genesee Street members of Occupy Utica and other community action groups held a rally for justice reform to protest the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial and the "stand your ground law" that help lead to Zimmerman's acquittal.