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ByJimSalterandAlan Scher Zagier The Associated Press FERGUSON,MO. Asanother protest on Ferguson's belea- guered West Florissant Av- enue began to turn rowdy, Jon Belmar was among the first to confront protesters. Wearing neither a helmet nor a shield, the St. Louis County police chief strode directly toward demonstra- tors, telling them to get out of the street and urging calm. "They're not going to take the street tonight," Belmar told an Associated Press reporter standing nearby. "That's not going to happen." One night earlier, things turned dangerously violent when shots rang out and an 18-year-old black suspect was shot by police after he allegedly fired a handgun into an unmarked police van. Police used smoke to disperse the crowd. Three officers were injured. The scene was markedly different on Monday, after St. Louis County Executive Steve Stenger declared a state of emergency, a move that gave Belmar — instead of interim Ferguson Police Chief Andre Anderson — control of security. This time, the police presence was far greater. Officers lined several blocks of West Florissant, rather than staying confined to a smaller area. And each time protesters left the sidewalk for the street, police con- verged. Unlike Sunday, there was no gunfire, no injuries and no reports of looting or property damage. More than 20 people were arrested. Police never deployed smoke or tear gas, though they were at times pelted with water bottles and rocks. Reaction from protesters was mixed. "I think they took com- mand out of the hands of the new chief of Ferguson pretty fast," Charles Mayo, leader of a moderate protest group that has sought to improve relations between protesters and police, said Tuesday. "They put the re- sponse in Belmar's hands. Me personally, I think Bel- mar did a great job." Ferguson resident and military veteran Hershel Myers Jr. criticized the po- lice response as aggressive and unnecessary. He said Ferguson police should have been in charge. "This is treatment we've been putting up with for- ever," Myers said. "It's al- ways St. Louis County push- ing us around and making up rules." Ferguson Mayor James Knowles III disputed the notion that the county tak- ing over was a negative re- flection on Anderson and Ferguson police. It simply marked a change in tactic, he said. Events marking the anni- versary of Michael Brown's death were peaceful until Sunday night, when multi- ple shots were fired and Ty- rone Harris Jr. was shot. He is accused of firing into an unmarked police van. The four plainclothes officers inside returned fire. Harris was struck multiple times and is hospitalized in crit- ical condition. "Obviously, there's a point at which you've got to put an end to it," Knowles said. "Property and life needed to be preserved. Their (police) tactics were going to have to change." The protest on West Flo- rissant marked the end of a day of protests around the region. The "Moral Mon- day" demonstrations had long been planned as part of the anniversary. Brown, 18, who was black and un- armed, was fatally shot dur- ing a confrontation with Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Wilson was cleared of wrongdoing by a St. Louis County grand jury and the U.S. Department of Justice, but his death spurred a na- tional "Black Lives Matter" movement. Earlier Monday, nearly 60 people were arrested for blocking the entrance to the federal courthouse in downtown St. Louis, where they called for the dissolu- tion of the Ferguson Police Department and asked the federal Department of Jus- tice to "do your job." Later during afternoon rush hour, more than 60 others were arrested for blocking lanes of Interstate 70 in St. Louis County, a few miles west of Ferguson. The nighttime protest in Ferguson involved sev- eral hundred people, most of them well-behaved. On a few occasions, groups of people wandered onto the street and blocked traffic, even as an officer with a bullhorn threatened them with arrest. SECURITY St. Louis County chief gained control of Ferguson protests JEFFROBERSON—THEASSOCIATEDPRESS St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar gestures during a news conference, Monday in Clayton, Mo. CHRISTIAN K. LEE — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Talia Pisano stands in her bed at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. She's getting a chance at having babies of her own someday. By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO Barely 2 years old, Talia Pisano is getting tough treatment for kidney cancer that spread to her brain. She's also getting a chance at having babies of her own someday. To battle infertility sometimes caused by can- cer treatment, some chil- dren's hospitals are trying a futuristic approach: re- moving and freezing im- mature ovary and testes tissue, with hopes of being able to put it back when patients reach adulthood and want to start families. No one knows yet if it will work. It has in adults — more than 30 babies have been born to women who had ovarian tissue removed in adulthood, frozen, and put back after treatment for cancer or other serious conditions. In lab animals, it's worked with frozen and thawed testes tissue. But the procedures are still experimental in chil- dren who haven't reached puberty, and too new to have been attempted. There are challenges to making immature eggs and sperm from removed tissue suitable for con- ception. Still, fertility re- searchers hope to refine the science while the first generation of children whose tissue has been put on ice grows up. Families like Talia's are clinging to that optimism. The dark-eyed toddler who loves princesses had an ovary removed and frozen in April. She was treated for kidney cancer last year but when it spread, doctors started harsher treatment including brain radiation. "It seemed very new and pretty amazing that we can do something like this and help her in a big- ger way," said her mom, Maria Pisano, of Griffith, Indiana. "It definitely brought some peace" and raised hope for Talia's future, Pi- sano said. Doctors face a delicate balance in broaching the idea of another medical procedure when families have been hit with a horri- ble diagnosis and difficult treatment plan. The tissue- removing surgeries are typ- ically done while a child is sedated for another reason. "We try to be thought- ful about the fact that their main focus and ours is on the survival of the child," said Dr. Erin Rowell, a sur- geon at Chicago's Lurie Children's Hospital, where Talia is being treated. Kids with cancer get chance to save fertility FREEZING TISSUE By Ivan Moreno and Ellen Knickmeyer The Associated Press DENVER The U.S. Environ- mental Protection Agency took full responsibility Tuesday for the mine waste spoiling rivers downstream from Silverton, Colorado, but people who live near the idled and leaking Gold King mine say local author- ities and mining companies spent decades spurning fed- eral cleanup help. They feared the stigma of a Superfund label, which delivers federal money up- front for extensive cleanups. They worried that corpora- tions would kill a hoped-for revival in the area's mining industry rather than get stuck with cleanup costs. And some haven't trusted the federal government, townspeople say. The EPA pushed anyway, for nearly 25 years, to apply its Superfund program to the Gold King mine, which has been leaching a smaller stream of arsenic, lead and other wildlife-killing heavy metals into Cement Creek. That water runs into the Animas and San Juan riv- ers before reaching Lake Powell and the lower Colo- rado River, a basin serving five states, Mexico and sev- eral sovereign Native Amer- ican nations. As millions of gallons of spilled sludge spread hun- dreds of miles downstream Tuesday, officials from the century-old mining towns of southwest Colorado de- fended their opposition to federal help. Mining companies don't like to invest in Superfund sites because they're heav- ily scrutinized and more costly to develop, said Er- nest Kuhlman, a San Juan County commissioner and Silverton's former mayor. Also, the stigma could have scared away rafters and anglers who helped bring $19 billion in tourism money to Colorado last year. "How many people want to go to a Superfund site for tourism or recreation?" Kuhlman asked. Now they've got a bigger problem: Last Wednesday, a small EPA-supervised work crew inspecting the Gold King mine accidentally knocked a hole in a waste pit, releasing at least three million gallons of acidic liq- uid laden with toxic heavy metals. Dissolved iron in the waste plume — familiar to miners as "yellow boy" — turned the area's scenic wa- terways a shocking orange hue. TheEPA ordered stretches of the rivers closed for drink- ing water, recreation and other uses at least through Monday. Colorado and New Mexico made disaster dec- larations. The Navajo Na- tion declared an emergency, saying that at least 16,000 of its people, 30,000 acres of crops and thousands of live- stock survive on water that's now off-limits. 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