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Experts urge safety after Central Illinois ATV, UTV accidents
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — It’s been more than two weeks since three teenagers died in a UTV accident in Shelby County, and two days since a 14-year-old was killed on an ATV in Cumberland County. Now, experts are urging people to stay vigilant in moving vehicles. No matter if you’re driving a car, riding a […]
Clark Co. flags fly at half-staff to honor Indiana sheriff
MARSHALL, Ill. (WCIA) — The Clark County Sheriff’s Office, Courthouse, and E-911 will be placing their flags at half-staff in honor of Sheriff John Plasse of Vigo County, Indiana. He passed away on Wednesday morning after battling cancer. “He was an all around good man,” Clark County Sheriff William Brown wrote on social media. “It […]
Charleston Fire Dept. extinguishes downtown fire
CHARLESTON, Ill. (WCIA) — No one is hurt following a fire in downtown Charleston Tuesday afternoon that prompted a box alarm response. The fire happened around 1:30 p.m. in a three-story building at 6th Street and Monroe Avenue. Officials with the Charleston Fire Department said the building is a taxpayer-style building with a business on the first floor and apartments on the second and third floors.
Most Illinois jails restrain people in chairs. This county ‘violently shocked’ them, too.
CHARLESTON, Ill. – Brice Fritz was naked, strapped down to a chair in a jail cell when a staff member monitoring her via video delivered 80,000 volts of electricity through the stun cuff on her leg. “I felt like I was being electrocuted,” Fritz told the Illinois Answers Project,...
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