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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,...
Quick action by Mattoon firefighters prevents fire from spreading to trailer with person inside
MATTOON, Ill. (WAND) - The Mattoon Fire Department was able to act quickly to extinguish a fire at an abandoned trailer and stop it from spreading to another trailer with a person inside. MFD responded to the 600 block of Marion Wednesday morning at 7:30. Crews found an abandoned single-wide...
Zedell gets 4 years for murder of Louis Riggs
CLARK COUNTY, Ill. (WTWO/WAWV) — A Martinsville man will spend time behind bars after being sentenced for the murder of Louis Riggs. Donmick Zedell appeared in Clark County Court for a sentencing hearing on Wednesday. The hearing follows Zedell being found guilty by a jury of 2nd degree murder in may of this year in […]
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