EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) - When poor students from this impoverished city got into college, Charlie Powell Jr. chipped in so they could attend. He got a trophy case for a junior high school. He ran a clean, loving boarding home for people who were homeless or mentally ill, keeping them safe and off the streets. Along the way, he rose to great political power, in recent years as a precinct committeeman and head of the local Democratic Party. It's that position that proved to be his undoing. In a federal courtroom Tuesday, despite testimony reciting his good works,...