Edgar County News

Police in Illinois are still looking for the suspect in a series of bank robberies.

There's a new resident in the Wabash Valley, at least for awhile. But this one comes with a furry coat, four paws and a tail, as well as a painful injury.

An lllinois county is looking to technology to help save your life during an emergency.

Robert S. Maus, 48, is behind bars after being arrested by the Edgar County Drug Task Force.

A drug task force in Illinois seized more than 200 pounds of marijuana. Officials said Thomas Shelley, of Fairmount, Ill., controlled a marijuana production and distribution operation out of Vermillion County.

It is the second time around for a Vermilion County man vying for a seat on the bench in the Fifth Judicial Circuit.

Local law enforcement teamed with Effingham and Edgar county authorities to make a multi-million drug bust last week.

A new emergency alert system is now available to residents of Edgar County, Illinois.

Inside the Simonton Windows factory here, some workers who are back on the job after being laid off for months believe they are proof that the darkest days of the recession are over.

For those of you in the Edgar County, Illinois area, the annual Honeybee Festival is on in Paris.

Motorcycle riders will take to the roads this weekend in an event to raise money to help rural firefighters.

Employees at the new Social Security Administration office at 400 N. Vermilion St.

A Paris, Ill., man died following a two-vehicle crash in Edgar County early Thursday.

A Paris, Ill., man died following a two-vehicle crash in Edgar County early Thursday.

One person dies after a morning accident in Edgar County, Illinois. It happened along Route 1, near Oliver, Illinois.

Rough weather did little to hold back festivities at the Georgetown Fair as storms paraded across central Illinois on Tuesday.

BROCTON – A Hume man remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday with injuries he received earlier Tuesday in a motorcycle wreck in western Edgar County.

The sun-bleached statue of Lady Justice on top of the 118-year-old Edgar County Courthouse leans hard to one side, but the county is hard pressed to do anything about it.

A 19-year-old Paris man was in Edgar County jail Tuesday after allegedly robbing a bank Monday afternoon.

Officials from four "wind farm" companies say residents can expect to see dozens of turbine towers popping up across Vermilion County in the next three years.