Officials take care of vintage grenades

DANVILLE – University of Illinois and Champaign police specially trained to handle explosives took care of two vintage hand grenades Thursday.

UI Police Lt. Skip Frost said the bomb squad got a call from the Vermilion County War Museum, 307 N. Vermilion St., Danville, about 9:30 a.m.

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