4+ hour ago   (1023+ words) Hunched over sewing machines, two workers rapidly stitch together pieces of camouflage-patterned fabric and Velcro strips. In the next room, workers snip stray threads as they inspect the finished product: helmet covers for the Canadian military. The factory is assembling…...

14+ hour, 7+ min ago   (50+ words) Alton Telegraph “Finding Emily,” a Focus Features release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association for “language, drug references, sexual references and some crude material.” Running time: 111 minutes. Three stars out of four....

18+ hour, 29+ min ago   (681+ words) Stubbornly high prices are shaping up to be a key issue in the midterm elections, now just 10 weeks away, particularly as the Iran war keeps gas prices high, President Donald Trump is threatening new tariffs on Canada and China, and…...

13+ hour, 41+ min ago   (237+ words) Closed handcuffs on the street pavement at night with police car lights image. EDWARDSVILLE — A Worden man was charged with firing at a car and battering a Madison County sheriff’s deputy. The 42-year-old suspect was charged Aug. 25 with aggravated discharge…...

15+ hour, 51+ min ago   (136+ words) Alton Telegraph Each week, homes change hands, and new chapters begin across Jersey County The following property transfers, recorded by the Jersey County Recorder of Deeds from Aug 17 to 21, are based on publicly available records Kyle Hollander and Shannon Darr…...

19+ hour, 37+ min ago   (383+ words) The first large site in the continental U.S. for testing technologies that generate electricity from ocean waves is now open after securing a key green-energy approval from the Trump administration. Companies can now bring wave energy technologies off the coast of…...

20+ hour, 2+ min ago   (912+ words) It is one of the most perilous political efforts that a member of Congress can undertake, so it is telling that the push is being led by two lawmakers who have little to lose at this stage of their careers....

20+ hour, 52+ min ago   (603+ words) Larger-than-life at 5-foot-nothing, the country star, actor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and theme park enthusiast who died Tuesday, transcended celebrity in rhinestones and fringe. She was embraced by fans across gender, race and class, embodying a mythology typically inaccessible to even the…...

1+ day, 58+ min ago   (762+ words) Yet “Dear You” has become China's second-highest-grossing film of the year. Now it is heading overseas, part of a broader wave of Chinese cultural exports. “Dear You" was shot mostly in Teochew, a dialect spoken in Guangdong’s Shantou region. Set…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (635+ words) Tulsa businessman Mike Mazzei narrowly won the Republican nomination for Oklahoma governor on Tuesday after getting a boost from President Donald Trump’s social media attacks on Mazzei’s rival, state Attorney General Gentner Drummond. Ahead of Tuesday’s GOP primary runoff in…...