Wed, Nov 14 2018

Fifteen minutes before his shift was to end on November 8, 2017, Lariat Rope, a thickset man of 55, tumbled into a pit of scalding water at Sapa Extrusions North America in Phoenix, an aluminum-products plant where he'd worked for more than 25…

Stories and photos from Dolton, Illinois…

The Norix Stack-A-Bunk is a bed. Barely. One vendor describes it as a plastic “bed platform” that is “resistant to blood, vinegar, urine, feces, salt solution and chlorine solution.” It's essentially an inverted plastic…

NJ Spotlight needs your support, and starting Nov. 1, you can double your gift through the nationwide Newsmatch on behalf of non-profit news. Newsmatch will double individual donations up to $1,000 through Dec. 31, providing NJ Spotlight a total of…

In 1973, Dolton Mayor Norman MacKay traveled to Capitol Hill to plead for federal aid in fixing a major problem that disturbed the quality of life in his close-knit, blue-collar suburb — a town that was in many ways a model of post-war…