Read more about the article OSHA aims to prevent ‘needless deaths’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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Read more about the article Local health department aims to roll out online inspection reports in the new yearPhoto 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…

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Read more about the article On Air: Meth use on the rise again in IllinoisDarrell 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.

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Read more about the article A tale of one meth labEast 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.

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Read more about the article Meth use on the rise again in IllinoisProvided 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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Read more about the article Two decades of meth useDarrell Hoemann
Recovering meth addict Michael Pasley talks about his journey near his workplace in Charleston, Ill., Sept. 11, 2013.

Two decades of meth use

Michael Pasley first used meth in his early teens. Two decades later, his use came to a quick end when he was arrested April 5, 2010, in Mattoon, Ill. The arrest came after he spent 22 straight days high on meth.

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