Kansas, IL. (ECWd) - At approximately 2:45 am on Monday, April 29, 2019, the Kansas Fire Protection District responded to a building fire next to the TGM grain elevator. The building was a past fertilizer storage barn converted to farm storage. It was fully involved in...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Earlier this month, Jason Ball was arrested and charged with felony failure to register as a sex offender and pleaded not guilty in Edgar County Circuit Court. Jason Ball is a former jailer for the Edgar County Sheriff's Department and convicted sex...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - After an accident involving an alleged DUI, we can now confirm that Stacey Adams, Kansas, Il., was cited for Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (Class A Misdemeanor), Posted a Bond of $100, her Driver's License, and has a first appearance in...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - [caption id="attachment_51710" align="alignnone" width="221"] Stacey Adams' mugshot 4-17-2019[/caption] On April 17, 2019 at approximately 2 p.m., there was a vehicular accident involving Edgar County Sheriff Deputy Adam Rhoads, who was responding to a call and traveling west on Highway 16, and Stacey Adams,...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - In a 4-3 vote at this morning's Special County Board meeting, the Edgar County Board voted to award the Special Service Area Ambulance contract to Horizon Health (Paris Hospital). A note of interest is the fact the Special Meeting held today was...
[caption id="attachment_51689" align="alignleft" width="229"] Photo from Kim Brown's Facebook page[/caption] PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - A local Edgar County resident who claims to have once received a phone call from the President and declined to talk to him, has been making some outrageous claims in regards to the...
Edgar (ECWd) - Edgar County Sheriff Deputy Dee Burgin has found himself in yet another Federal civil rights case resulting from what appears to be yet another case of violating a person's civil rights. The criminal case in the County got tossed after video evidence pointed to...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Over the past year, we have fielded several questions from various parties about our organization. Here are the answers (with the correction of we were founded on January 10, 2013 - not Jan 20th): https://youtu.be/A-PCqlUzBMo . ...
KANSAS, IL. (ECWd) - There was a 2-vehicle accident on Route 49, just north of Kansas, IL. earlier this morning. 3 patients transported to the hospital; 1 by Kansas FPD, 1 by Charleston, and 1 by Horizon out of Paris. Will post more information if it becomes available. [gallery...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - According to recent tips, and an article by WTHI (here), Edgar County has been included in the "Hepatitis A outbreak" in Illinois. Tips to our hotline pointed to cases of Hep-A at the Edgar County Jail, which we have already submitted a FOIA...
