Clark Co. - (ECWd) - Criminal Class 3 Felony charges have been filed against Clark County Circuit Clerk, Kathy Ramsey, for Official Misconduct/obtain personal gain, and Class 4 Felony charges against her daughter, Summer Shaw, for theft of government property under $500.00. (Kathy Ramsey Judici charges...
Clark Co., IL. (ECWd) - The Clark County Park District held what some are calling an illegal meeting tonight. Illegal, because residents tell us there was no 48 hour notice for the prior to the meeting as required by the Open Meetings Act. On the agenda is...
College of DuPage, IL. (ECWd) - We have learned the College of DuPage had receive a Grand Jury subpeana for records of President Breuder and Sr. Staff purchases and house accounts for their purchases at the former Waterleaf restaurant. We know for a fact that item numbers...
DeKalb, IL. (ECWd) - This will be another multi-part story, and we believe we should point out all the players first so you can get a feel for who is playing what part. Bear with us while we set this up to where everyone can grasp what...
Yesterday I attended the Honey Bee parade in Paris, IL. A local person walked by that I knew and when I simply said hi, how is it going?, the response was “I don’t like the #$%@ you post”. I asked, you mean the truth? The...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - The reporting on Randy Peterson's candidacy by the News-Gazette, which reported Peterson's '03 DUI arrest as having "a preliminary blood test said he had a blood alcohol content of 0.156, as detected by a portable breath alcohol test device"Â while it may...
Champaign, IL. (ECWd) - Amazing. Your tax dollars at work. It appears the Champaign-Urbana Public Health District decided to participate in the Pride Parade (2014 and 2015), which is fine if that is what they want to do. In order to participate in the parade, they decided it...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - We have questioned local media in the past and written about issues with media in general regarding their failure to get to the bottom of what they are being told by people when they prepare their articles. We also continue to see local...
DuPage Co. (ECWd) - "When a government administrator has personal and business problems, the lack of attention to important details seems to increase resulting in poor judgment overall that can flow over into their important job of serving the public. Below I revisit Chief Mancione of...
Paris, IL. (ECWd) - In May, we ran an article referencing fines paid to the Teacher's Retirement System by our local school districts. Data provided by TRS showed a fine for several D95 employees, one of which was Mr. Whitacre. District 95 Superintendent, Connie Sutton, insisted that...
