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FILE - This combination of undated file photos shows Ryan Ferguson, left, and Kent Heitholt, right. An attorney for a Ferguson, whose conviction in the slaying of Missouri sports editor Kent Heitholt was overturned, has filed a civil rights lawsuit seeking $100 million. (AP Photo/File)

$100M civil rights suit filed in Missouri slaying

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER - Associated Press

Ryan Ferguson arrives at the Tiger Hotel in Columbia, Mo., on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013, to speak to supporters after being freed from prison earlier in the evening. A state appeals court last week overturned his murder and robbery convictions in the 2001 slaying of Columbia Daily Tribune Sports Editor Kent Heitholt, and Mr. Ferguson's release followed a decision Tuesday by the Missouri attorney general not to retry him. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

Missouri man freed after murder conviction is overturned

By David A. Lieb - Associated Press