Groups mark National Meth Awareness Day

DANVILLE – Today, 39-year-old Robert P. Hempel of Danville is expected to be arraigned on charges of manufacturing and possession of methamphetamine and possession of anhydrous ammonia.

State police arrested Hempel at a Montclaire Street house Tuesday as part of an ongoing methamphetamine production investigation.

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• Woman is sentenced for bicyclist's death
• Wilhelms push legislators for distracted driving measure
• Champaign man receives 6-year term for hit-and-run death
• Panel votes to phase in electricity rate hikes
• Minimum wage hike proposal awaits its final hurdle
• Students conduct Life Savers survey
• Bement school superintendent seeks end to two days off
• Day care planned in vacant Rossville-Alvin school
• Obituaries

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