Harrisburg, IL. (ECWd) - RIDES Mass Transit District is the recipient of a $9,825,000 grant as part of the Rebuild Illinois Statewide Transit Capital Program. RIDES-MTD indicated the funds would be used for: • Upgrade all information technology items to replace existing end-of-life hardware and software items and include...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - After more than five years of arguments and two years of legal wrangling, RIDES Mass Transit District loses lawsuit designed to extract more than $154,000 from the residents of Edgar County by claiming they were owed funds left over from the defunct...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) – A hearing was held on October 25, 2018, in Coles County for the RIDES Mass Transit District’s lawsuit against Edgar County filed in August of 2016. (here) Judge Glenn heard arguments from Edgar County and from RIDES and later granted dismissal of RIDES'...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - We have been notified that sentencing of Kami Miller is scheduled for December 15, 2017 in United States District Court in Urbana, Illinois. She plead guilty last month to Mail Fraud with a whole slew of details surrounding the mail fraud (here). Her daughter-in-law,...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - In the continuing legal battle between RIDES Mass Transit District and the Edgar County Board over the remaining funds after dissolution of the East Central Illinois Mass Transit District ("ECIMTD"), a Second Amended Complaint has been filed by RIDES Mass Transit...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Kami Miller and Ashley Miller (yes they are related) both pled guilty in Federal Court, the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Urbana Division of crimes against the former East Central Illinois Mass Transit District. We wrote about these...
EDGAR CO., IL. (ECWd) - Just days prior to the scheduled Hearing on Edgar County's Motion to Dismiss, RIDES Mass Transit District filed a Motion to file a second Amended Complaint. That Motion was approved by the Court and they were given until August 1, 2017 to...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Edgar County has filed an answer, in the form of a Motion to Dismiss, to the amended complaint filed against them by RIDES Mass Transit District ("RIDES-MTD"). This suit deals with the funds remaining after dissolution of the East Central Mass Transit District...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - Rides Mass Transit District ("RIDES-MTD")filed its amended complaint a couple of weeks ago in their lawsuit alleging Edgar County owes them over $152,000 - which was the remaining funds after all debts were paid from the allegedly dissolved East Central Illinois mass Transit...
PARIS, IL. (ECWd) - A full eight days after the cut-off date to file an amended complaint, RIDES-MTD filed one in Edgar County Circuit Court. This amended complaint consists of the following: claim of "promissory estoppel" claim of "breach of unilateral contract" The lawsuit stems from the deposition of...
