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Missouri Man Dies in Dam’s Hydraulics While Trying to Save Trapped Boater

21 juillet 2025 à 18:00
The man jumped into the water to help a boater who had become trapped in the powerful, washing machine-like waters at the base of the dam.

© Shelby Tauber for The New York Times

A low-head dam in Hochatown, Okla. At a similar low-head dam on the Elk River in Noel, Mo., a man died over the weekend after becoming trapped in the dam’s hydraulics while trying to save a boater.

William L. Clay, Missouri’s First Black Congressman, Dies at 94

21 juillet 2025 à 14:41
A co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, he represented St. Louis in the House as an uncompromising liberal Democrat and a forceful advocate for the poor.

© Moorland-Springarn Research Center, Howard University, via CQ Roll Call/Associated Press

“I represent those who are in need of representation,” Representative William L. Clay once said. “I have no intention of representing those powerful interests who walk over powerless people.”
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