‘Technological Calamities’ keep Urbana’s website offline
By Robert Holly/CU-CitizenAccess -- Though the City of Urbana’s website has been down for nearly two weeks, city officials said they still don’t know…
Darrell Hoemann
Darla Frye with her daughter Lauren in her sixth grade classroom at Urbana Middle School on Thursday, November 14, 2013. photo by Darrell Hoemann/The Midwest Center for Investigative Journalism
Teacher still dedicated despite struggles with cutbacks
By Sal Nudo/For CU-CitizenAccess.org -- Mother and daughter enter the brightly lit Biggby Coffee shop on Mattis Avenue in Champaign. It’s a brisk October…
Don McMasters
Firefighters practice placing a rescue tube during grain bin rescue training at the Danville Bunge facility, Sept. 17, 2013.
OSHA aims to prevent ‘needless deaths’
The deadliest year for grain-bin workers on record was 2010, when at least 26 workers died throughout the country, according to grain-bin entrapment data from Purdue University. There were more than 50 total incidents that year.
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The grain facility in Sidney, IL on Tuesday, August 13, 2013
As deaths add up, farmers “walk the grain” unprotected
In July, a 55-year-old man working for Premier Cooperative in Sidney, Ill., suffocated and died after becoming trapped in a grain bin filled with corn.
Farm Fatalities in Illinois
Each day, more than 200 agriculture workers suffer an injury severe enough to miss work, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and…
Photo provided/The Champaign-Urbana Public Health District
Example of a color-coded placard that restaurants would be required to post under a proposed plan to make inspection results more public.
Red means that the restaurant's health permit was suspended following a health inspection.
Local health department aims to roll out online inspection reports in the new year
By Pamela G. Dempsey/CU-CitizenAccess -- Champaign public health officials are once again aiming for a Jan. 1 target date to post restaurant inspection reports…
Weekly RoundUp: Halloween
Despite the less-than-ideal weather, kids will dress in creative costumes and ring doorbells throughout central Illinois tonight for “just one more” piece of candy.…
Darrell Hoemann
Example's of lab components provided by Vermilion County Sheriff's deputies during a discussion about the area's growing problems with methamphetamine, Sept.30, 2013.
On Air: Meth use on the rise again in Illinois
Illinois registered the fifth-most methamphetamine lab seizures and arrests in the country last year. Listen to the original radio story and watch the television broadcasts aired on Illinois Public Media.
East Central Illinois Task Force in Mattoon, Ill.
Parts for cooking methamphetamine sit inventoried on the floor. Such parts are typical of the makeshift laboratories police are finding across the state.
A tale of one meth lab
Beginning in June 2012, drug task force agents tracked 78 occasions when people who had recently purchased pseudoephedrine arrived at Tena Logan's residence in Loxa, Ill., according to a written statement by FBI task force officer Scott Standerfer, in the case against Logan.
Provided by Michael Pasley
Michael Pasley cooking meth at unknown date and location.
Meth use on the rise again in Illinois
This past summer, Tena Logan of Loxa, Ill., was convicted of conspiring to manufacture 50 grams or more of methamphetamine and possessing it with intent to distribute. Earlier this year, Michael Pasley of Mattoon, Ill., was released from the Illinois Department of Corrections after serving more than two years for manufacturing meth.
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