Champaign man receives 6-year term for hit-and-run death

URBANA – A Champaign man who admitted he failed to stop after hitting an Urbana woman with his car was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.

James Fehlberg, 47, who listed an address in the 1000 block of Crescent Drive, pleaded guilty in late September to failure to report an accident involving death.

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