Prosecutors on Thursday dropped charges of trespassing and interference with police officers against two national reporters arrested while covering the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Mo. Attorneys this month announced that four other journalists arrested during the protests settled their March 2015 lawsuit against St. Louis County police. A message Thursday with a St. Louis County police spokesman was not immediately returned. While insisting the charges were "supported by the facts," St. Louis County Counselor Peter Krane — the county's chief legal official — said "the resolution reached is a reasonable one. The charges, filed in August 2015, were dismissed against The Washington Post's Wesley Lowery and The Huffington Post's Ryan Reilly, St. Louis County spokesman Cordell Whitlock told The Associated Press.

Source: CBC News May 19, 2016 21:52 UTC