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“Fashion Show” Highlights Need for Proper PPE Fit for Women

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From Construction Dive: At the far end of the expo hall, a crowd gathered for a demonstration at last week’s American Society of Safety Professionals 2025 Conference + Expo. Seats around a catwalk promptly filled, leaving many attendees standing to view the show. Booths a few feet away displayed personal protective equipment and other safety […]

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Tom Finan

100 Years Ago: Cordelia Jones Returns Home from the Vaudeville Circuit

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ALTON - An article in the Alton Evening Telegraph on July 30, 1925, mentioned that Cordelia Jones, “who for years was Alton’s most popular one-man band,” was back home for a two-week vacation after being on the road for nearly a year. “Twenty years ago, Cordelia Jones was the most popular of pianists for society dances in Alton. She continued her popularity here, but she decided to go away from her old home and take up a life of travel, letting her music pay the expenses.” She left Alton for Hollywood in August 1924, where she played piano for star-studded parties. She then travelled on the Pantages vaudeville circuit through large cities of the west, north, and east. The Telegraph article noted that she was enjoying the tour, but that she had lost about 30 pounds during her travels. Jones stayed with her parents, Louis and Jennie Jones, on Easton Street and planned to rejoin the vaudeville company in Duluth after her Alton visit. However, Cordelia’s

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Cross-River Crime Task Force Deployment Results In Arrests For Weapon, Drug Offenses

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EDWARDSVILLE — The Cross-River Crime Task Force conducted another high-impact deployment on Saturday, July 27, 2025, resulting in multiple arrests and the seizure of illegal firearms and narcotics. During the operation, 20 law enforcement officers from multiple agencies deployed to targeted areas of Madison County, conducting proactive patrols and traffic stops utilizing intelligence-based policing, technology, and interagency coordination. Key outcomes from the deployment included: Multiple fugitives apprehended on outstanding warrants, including felony drug offenses and a fugitive who was in violation of sex-offender registration requirements. In separate traffic stops, several arrests for Aggravated Unlawful Use of a Weapon, including one subject charged with Felon in Possession of a Firearm/Armed Violence. A total of four firearms were seized. Drug seizures, including: Approximately 1.5 ounces of suspected methamphetamine 39 boxes of Suboxone Nearly 1 ounce of suspected

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‘Half-baked’ USDA relocation irritates members of both parties on US Senate Ag panel

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Members of both parties on the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee chastised a U.S. Department of Agriculture official Wednesday for not consulting Congress before proposing to shift thousands of jobs out of the Washington, D.C., area. USDA Deputy Secretary Stephen Alexander Vaden defended the sweeping proposal, which Secretary Brooke Rollins announced with a five-page memo last week, saying […]
Jacob Fischler

Durbin Delivers Opening Statement At Spotlight Forum Examining Trump Administration's Voter Suppression Efforts

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered an opening statement at his and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla’s (D-CA) spotlight forum entitled “Protecting the Future of American Democracy: Fighting a Surge in Voter Suppression.” Today’s spotlight forum examined the recent surge in voter suppression by Republican state legislatures and the Trump Administration, ranging from attempts to purge voter rolls to the push to invalidate the results of the 2024 North Carolina State Supreme Court election through targeted disenfranchisement of voters after they had cast their ballots. Today’s spotlight forum comes after Durbin and U.S. Senator Reverand Raphael Warnock (D-GA) led all Senate Democrats in reintroducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act , legislation that would update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act . Key quotes: “

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Missouri AG Files Felony Indictment Against Sam Page for Misusing Funds

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ST. LOUIS COUNTY, MO. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that a grand jury on Wednesday, July 30, 2025, has returned a felony indictment against St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, charging him with two counts of election law violations and a count of stealing $25,000 or more and one count of stealing $750 or more. “I conducted this investigation into Sam Page’s alleged misuse of public funds because the people of St. Louis County deserve accountability, not corruption,” said Bailey. “Public officials must follow the law, and my Office will work to ensure that they always do.” The Missouri attorney general issued this statement: "The charges stem from allegations of Page’s deliberate misuse of public resources to oppose Proposition B, a local ballot initiative presented to voters on April 8, 2025. The allegations include that Page purposely expended more than $35,000 in county funds to produce and distribute over 50,000

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Grand jury indicts top Democrat in St. Louis County government on felony charges

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The top elected official in Missouri’s largest county was indicted Wednesday on four criminal charges for allegedly misusing public money to oppose passage of an April ballot measure. The indictment, secured by Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office acting as special prosecutor, accuses St. Louis County Executive Sam Page of spending public funds on a flyer […]
Rudi Keller

Epstein files must be released by Trump administration under obscure law, Democrats contend

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday began charting a little-known legal path to force President Donald Trump’s administration to release the investigative files on the now deceased Florida sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, Democratic members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, […]
Ashley Murray

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens The Floodgates To U.S. Surveillance

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The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies. Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance bill with multiple privacy-invasive provisions. But the thrust is clear: it’s a roadmap to aligning Canadian surveillance with U.S. demands.  It’s […]
Joe Mullin

Compassionate SIUE Student Gillian Trover Seeks Support For Costa Rica Medical Trip

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EDWARDSVILLE - Gillian Trover, a compassionate nursing student at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, is preparing for a medical mission trip to Costa Rica aimed at providing healthcare to underserved communities. The trip, organized through her School of Nursing, is scheduled to take place in the near future, with Trover and her fellow students offering basic medical care, health education, and emotional support to individuals who often lack regular access to healthcare. Trover described nursing as a calling rooted in compassion and service. “Nursing isn’t just a career for me — it’s a calling,” she said. The mission trip will allow her to treat patients with limited healthcare options, teach basic health practices, and learn cultural humility, all while gaining hands-on experience that will shape her future nursing career. The total cost of the trip is $3,625, covering flights, transportation, lodging, meals, program fees, and travel insurance.

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