Here are the top headlines from June 6 editions of The Telegraph over the years:
Three people were arrested on charges of promoting dog fighting after Madison County sheriff's deputies seized two injured pit bulls in the 200 block of Edwards Street in Cottage Hills. Authorities said they had received an anonymous tip about a dog fight at that address before taking a 35-year-old Cottage Hills man, a 35-year-old Brighton man and a 41-year-old Alton woman into custody. The dogs were turned over to the Madison County Animal Control Department.
A federal jury in East St. Louis ruled in favor of Hardin-based Billy Bob Teeth Inc. in its copyright infringement lawsuit against Novelty Inc., maker of Bubba Teeth. The jurors awarded $142,046 in damages to Billy Bob Teeth, which manufactured novelty teeth sold as gag gifts, especially during the Halloween season. Novelty Inc., of Greenfield, Indiana, was accused of copying Billy Bob's product, which gave wearers the appearance of “rotten-toothed country bumpkins.â€
The Telegraph profiled an Alton man who was wounded during the D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944. James Dunnagan, who was 71 years old in 1991, took part in the landing on Omaha Beach that day and was wounded in the head and chest by shrapnel from a German mortar shell. Dunnagan and riflemen of Company F, 325th Glider Infantry, part of the 82nd Airborne Division, had swooped down onto the battlefield in a glider.
The Telegraph did not publish that day, a Sunday.
Alton Police Chief Raymond Galloway announced a burglary in which a safe had been taken from the Knights of Columbus building on East Fourth Street had been solved. The safe, which had contained $450 in cash, was found abandoned where it had been opened on Missouri Point. A 26-year-old man and a 25-year-old man, both from Alton, were held under bonds of $3,500 each after waiving preliminary hearings.
The Telegraph did not publish that day, a Sunday.
