John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time ...

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags ... the first American prisoners of war released from Vietnam. The hiatus only lasted a day, and flags went back to half-staff ...

Earlier this month, the president-elect accused Democrats of being “giddy” about “our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration.” “They think ...