Christian County, IL

In late 2021, the Illinois General Assembly passed the Home to Market Act, which expanded the state’s Cottage Food law passed in 2012. University of Illinois Extension Health and Wellness Educator Lisa Peterson says the extension office of Christian County is ready to help people navigate the new law which went into effect in January.

The Christian County Sheriff's Office reported the following to Regional Radio News;. 05-18-22 Christian Crowder 31 was arrested by TPD for arson. 05-18-22 A minor and Bradley Badman were involved in a traffic crash in King township. Bethard failed to yield to Badman at the intersection of 200 E Rd and 300 N Rd and the minor struck Badman. Badman continued south from the intersection and came to a stop in the ditch. Both vehicles were towed from the scene and Badman was airlifted to the hospital.

SULLIVAN, Ill. (WCIA) — A man is dead after he was pulled from Lake Shelbyville over the weekend. Christian County 911 received a call on Friday just before 11 p.m. of a man in the lake at Bo Woods Campground in Sullivan. Deputies from the Moultrie County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to the scene and […]

Editor, Register-Mail: Driving through rural West Central Illinois, one can see signs “No Easement, CO2 Carbon Pipelines, No Eminent Domain.”. Last December, land owners in or near the proposed pipeline route in 13 Illinois counties: Hancock, Adams, McDonough, Henry, Knox, Fulton, Schuyler, Brown, Pike, Scott, Morgan, Sangamon, and Christian received an informational packet from a private company planning 1,300-mile-long CO2 pipeline going through five states: South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois. Industrial CO2 would be captured, piped, and then sequestered in Christian County. CO2 is transported as a liquid under very high pressure.

The Springfield FBI is seeking the public’s help to find a suspect in an arson incident that occurred last month in the southwestern portion of Christian County at a pipeline repair site. On or about midnight on April 21st, a suspect gained access to an excavator owned by Vance...

The following people were set to appear in Christian County Court on May 17th. For more on their case, visit www.Judici.com. Click here to see the list of those who were scheduled to be in court today.

The Christian County board met for their monthly board meeting and one of the bigger discussions centered around a proposed six-month moratorium that would put a halt on any vote on the CO2 Carbon Sequestration project for 6 months. Board member, Ray Koonce, said the moratorium would be good for both sides.

The Christian County Sheriff's Office reported the following to Regional Radio News;. 05-14-22 Jason Clements 37 was arrested by Kincaid PD for phone harassment. 05-14-22 Bradley Gensler 36 was arrested by Kincaid PD for possession of a controlled substance. 05-14-22 Brittany Spencer 25 was arrested by Kincaid PD for possession...

TAYLORSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old Oklahoma girl died on Sunday when an all-terrain vehicle that she was a passenger on crashed in central Illinois, also injuring her uncle and another child. Ulicia Garner-Cox was pronounced dead at the scene on Sunday evening by Christian County’s coroner....

Driving through rural central Illinois, one can see signs: “No Easement, CO2 Carbon Pipelines, No Eminent Domain.”. Last December, land owners in or near the proposed pipeline route in 13 Illinois counties — Hancock, Adams, McDonough, Henry, Knox, Fulton, Schuyler, Brown, Pike, Scott, Morgan, Sangamon and Christian — received an informational packet from a private company planning a 1,300-mile-long carbon dioxide pipeline through five states: South Dakota; Nebraska; Minnesota; Iowa; and Illinois.

TAYLORSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a 6-year-old Oklahoma girl died Sunday when an all-terrain vehicle she was a passenger on crashed in central Illinois, also injuring her uncle and another child. Ulicia Garner-Cox was pronounced dead at the scene Sunday evening by Christian County’s coroner. She was from Elmore City, Oklahoma, according to her obituary. The Christian County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that Garner-Cox was riding on an ATV with her 44-year-old uncle and a 10-year-old boy when it crashed and threw them off the vehicle in rural Christian County. Garner-Cox died from multiple blunt injuries, her uncle was hospitalized in critical condition and the boy suffered minor injuries.

The Nokomis-Pana-Taylorville (NPT) Special Education Cooperative was born on July 1, 2019. The three school districts had petitioned the Regional School Board of Bond, Christian, Effingham, Fayette and Montgomery counties in 2017 to allow them to withdraw from the Mid-State Special Education Cooperative and form their own special ed coop and it was granted.

JOHNSON TOWNSHIP (WCIA) — A six-year-old girl was killed in an ATV crash on a private property in Johnson Township Sunday evening. Authorities said that three individuals were thrown from the ATV, and that the driver of the vehicle, 44-year-old James Bradley Cox is in critical conditon. Cox was transported from the scene by ambulance […]

JOHNSON TOWNSHIP, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) — A 6-year-old girl is dead and two people are injured after they were thrown from an ATV in Christian County. The Christian County Sheriff's Office says they were called around 8 p.m. Sunday to an ATV crash in Johnson Township. We're told it happened...