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Fill the citys coffers. jackson of course oversaw all of this on top of the initial reaction to a wave of violence that gripped ferguson after one of his police officers shot and killed michael brown last summer. lets get right to cnns sara sidner. these new details breaking over the past hour. do we know right now what led jackson to make this decision and did he in fact resign already? >> reporter: i am told that he has resigned. we have not seen the paperwork yet. we have not seen the physica...

Today, sae admitting that song and its viral lyrics have been chanted and taught at the fraternity for years. the money lead. catchy tune but a court now saying robin thicke and pharrell stole it from marvin gay and its going to cost them a pretty penny. but will music lovers everywhere end up being the ones who pay an even greater price? oh, mercy, mercy me. good afternoon. im jake tapper. breaking news in our national lead. the ferguson police chief, thomas jackson, has stepped down. this ...

Michael jackson borrowed from james brown. justin timberlake borrowed from all of them. if you read the biography of marvin gay, "divided soul," marvin gay says he was inspired by the 1976 hit "disco lady" by johnny taylor and writing his song "got to give it up." everybody is influenced by somebody else. the question is is it theft, do you cross the line or is it just love an homage to someone, past heroes. there are a lot of questions in the music industry that this verdict maybe goes too far ...

That area. that happened in fact to the former force where darren wilson used to be a police officer, right? >> in jennings thats correct, right next door. walking distance from ferguson. that did happen. you will see the st. louis county police that are now patrolling that city. so it is not unprecedented and there has been a political push, by the way, to bring all these very small departments under one big umbrella. thats been going on for a long time. its called the better together initiativ...