Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - Steven A. Cobb, a convicted pedophile now serving 5 years in the Department of Corrections related to his arrest and prosecution in Coles County also faces a Class X felony charge for Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Child in Shelby...
Shelby Co. (ECWd) - We first covered the arrest of Steven Decker in this article after he allegedly drove through a cemetery in Moweaqua in January of 2023. Decker was originally charged with Class 3 and 4 felonies and Class A misdemeanors; however, no charge was...
Clermont, FL. (ECWd) - We have finally secured the final remaining domain name pursuant to a settlement agreement and apology letter tendered by Bonnie Kurowski. It is: fightforil.com and was part of the federal lawsuit settlement. This one took us a few weeks to obtain as...
Shelby Co., Ill. (ECWd) - The Shelby County State's Attorney announced criminal charges against Kathleen Agney, wife of Troy Agney, the former Shelby County EMA Director. Below is the quote released and provided to Shelbyville Eagle. "Today, Â May 2, 2023, I caused to be filed with the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - Copies of the verified petitions for Orders or Protection / No Stalking Orders indicate allegations of threats of shooting all of the newly elected water district trustees and further instances of stalking new and former trustee(s). According to the court filings in the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - During a Special Meeting of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District held on April 5, 2023, just weeks prior to a newly elected board taking over the District from the appointed (and lame-duck) board, it decided to place "Veolia Contract" on the...
Silvis, Ill. (ECWd) - In a previous article on our complaint to the Attorney General's Public Access Counselor ("PAC") against the City of Silvis, Illinois, alleging Open Meetings Act ("OMA") violations during a February 7, 2023, closed meeting in which the city's labor attorney confiscated and...
ILLINOIS (ECWd) - UPDATE 5-4-2023: The Federal Appeals Court STAYED the lower federal court's injunction against enforcement of the gun/magazine ban. U.S. District Judge Stephen P. McGlynn, Southern District of Illinois, issued a 29-page Order for an Injunction against the state of Illinois' enforcement of the recent...
Springfield, Ill. (ECWd) - As we reported in February on a previous version of this Bill which was apparently abandoned, the Bloomington-Normal Airport Authority in McLean County is wanting more tax money, so they lobbied State Senator David Koehler to sponsor Senate Bill 684, which amends the...
Mahomet, Ill. (ECWd) - A couple of weeks ago, Kerry Gifford, the General Manager of the Sangamon Valley Public Water District, turned in his resignation as Treasurer of the District and apparently had some words with the water district's board president or someone else in the...
