Taylorville News

Christian County State's Attorney Tom Finks has withdrawn as a candidate for circuit judge in the 4th Circuit.

Siemens Energy, Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center , the 730-megawatt coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Illinois.

Get Flash to see this video. WILL travels to Taylorville to see a museum dedicated to the history of coal mining; we travel to the Cahokia Mounds and learn about the ancient Native American city that once thrived there; we walk through Allerton Park in central Illinois RealVideo archive of this episode MPEG4 download Segment details, archives, and ...

The University of Illinois is facing its first lawsuit in the wake of an admissions scandal.

Governor Pat Quinn and Illinois Environmental Protection Agency Director Doug Scott recently announced grants and loans for environmental projects to improve wastewater quality in Illinois, using funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 .

Saturday was a big day for Sheri Gilmer and her two daughters, Emma and Elise. The Gilmer's new house, built by Habitat For Humanity of McLean County and Women Build, was blessed.

The horse judging event consisted of a gelding halter class and a mare halter class.

Central Illinois Ghost Investigators captured an EVP at the famous Graveyard X in Taylorville, Illinois on Sunday, August 30, 2009.

AUSTIN -- Pastor Paul Floyd Brown, age 60 of Austin, died Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, at Rochester Methodist Hospital.

Ameren says the power outages were concentrated Tuesday morning around Lincoln, Pekin and Taylorville.

Prosecutors in central Illinois are still mulling whether to seek the death penalty for a cab driver's murder in Taylorville, but they gave no indication late last week when the three suspects in the crime were before a Christian County Judge.

A suspect remains at large following a police chase Monday evening north of Shelbyville and ending in Westervelt.

Clark Robertson rolls out the third generation for Robertson/Turner Racing, son Conner .

This is the second story from Joseph Andrew "Tony" Tonozzi. Tonozzi: My dad was born in Italy in 1880.

The Taylorville Energy Center, a proposed clean-coal project to be built in Illinois, expects to obtain a federal loan guarantee of nearly $2.6 billion after being selected by the U.S. Department of Energy for final term-sheet negotiations, the developers said on Friday.

Budget deadline passes without new budget The deadline has passed, and lawmakers left the Capitol Tuesday still without balancing the state's budget.

A 17-year-old boy has died after an apparent drowning in a central Illinois lake.

Former Shelby County State's Attorney and present Christian County State's Attorney Tom Finks has announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Circuit Judge of the 4th Judicial Circuit, to succeed retiring Judge John P. Coady of Taylorville.

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