The Washington Count Drug Taskforce along with the Indiana State Police arrested two Campbellsburg residents Monday afternoon on meth-related charges, after finding a one-pot meth lab in a residence located on Franklin Street.

A tip led officers to Franklin Street in Campbellsburg where they executed a search warrant and found a one-pot meth lab in operation.

Arrested were Mack Daily and Jessica Lemarr, 26.

When police arrived at the residence they spotted Mack Daily looking out a window.

A state trooper went to front of the house while a member of the Drug Task Force went around to the back of the house. The officer yelled for Mack, who came to the door.

“He came outside and was acting very nervous,” said the officer. “I asked him if there was anyone else inside and he seemed very nervous.”

Police asked to enter the home and were given permission. State police cleared the house and a search warrant was requested and executed.

The Taskforce found a one-pot meth lab, along with Sudafed in the residence, syringes and other drug paraphernalia.

“Daily had just drained it off in a jar,” said one officer. “He was ‘smoking’ it to off to get the meth.”

Lemarr was staying in the home and was also arrested.

Both are initially charged with maintaining a meth lab, Class B Felony; possession of Meth, Class D Felony, possession of chemical reagents, Class B Felony, maintaining a common nuisance, and possession of drug paraphernalia.

More charges may be filed in this case. Stay tuned to WSLM for more information. You can hear up to date local and regional news on WSLM at 7a, 10a, 12:30a and 5p daily as well as ABC NEWS at the top of the hour.

A proposal from two Republican senators may break the logjam on an immigration bill.

North Dakota‘s John Hoeven and Tennessee‘s Bob Corker have proposed doubling the Border Patrol and adding 700 miles of fence along the U-S boundary with Mexico. Indiana Senator Dan Coats says he‘s “trying to talk (himself) into” supporting it.

The Republican senator says the current situation is unacceptable, but says he wants to avoid a repeat of the last immigration reform effort, which he supported as a House member in 1986. He says that proposal failed to deliver on promises to tighten verification procedures in exchange for legalization of about half the illegal immigrants then in the U-S.

Coats says he‘d prefer a requirement that the U-S achieve border-security targets before the start of a 13-year “path to citizenship” for people illegally in the U-S. Texas Senator John Cornyn had proposed a trigger of 90-percent success in blocking illegal border crossings. Democrats blocked a vote on that amendment.

Coats has introduced his own version applying the 90-percent standard only on the parts of the border where most crossings take place.  The Hoeven-Corker amendment makes 90-percent success a goal, not a precondition.

You‘ve probably noticed that gas prices are falling fast.

A few weeks ago, problems with refineries in northwest Indiana and Illinois caused prices to spike as high as 4.29 per gallon.

Now, you can find gas for a full dollar-per-gallon less in some parts of Indianapolis, according to GasBuddy.com.   Patrick DeHaan, Senior Petroleum Analyst with Gas Buddy, says the average prices for metro Indy is now 3.53 per gallon for regular unleaded, a drop of 30 cents from this time last week.

Part of the reason is the refineries that have come back online, but DeHaan also says economic jitters are playing a role.  Anxiety over the Federal Reserve possibly ending it‘s effort to stimulate the economy with extra dollars.

The Fed‘s announcement that it believes the economy may be strong enough to survive without the stimulus sent stock prices down, and DeHaan says it sent the price of oil down, too, as traders wonder whether people will use as much oil if the economy slows.

The drop in gas prices is expected to continue at least through this week, as DeHaan says the wholesale price of gasoline continues to fall.  The U.S. is also starting to produce more of its own oil – thanks largely to fracking and other new technologies, the country is on track to produce more oil than it imports this year for the first time since the 1990‘s.

But DeHaan says having more crude here will not translate into lower gas prices unless more refining capacity is added.  He says capacity is especially tight in the Midwest, where any refinery problems can lead to price spikes like the one from a few weeks ago.

The Federal Building in Downtown Indianapolis is back open.

This after the IMPD bomb squad blew up a suspicious backpack.  Lt. Chris Bailey says authorities evacuated the building at Pennsylvania and North just after 2 pm Monday.  He says that‘s when a woman carrying the backpack entered.

Bailey says federal security got suspicious about the pack while running it through their scanner.  They evacuated the building including a daycare center.  Bailey says everyone is fine and they returned inside the building just before 4 pm.

Bailey says the woman remains in federal custody.  He says IMPD is taking over the investigation

The National Weather Service says everyone should heed the dangers of lightning.  This week is “National Lightning Safety Awareness Week.” Indianapolis-based Meteorologist Jason Puma says seven people nationwide have been killed by lightning so far this year.

Last year, lightning killed 28 Americans.  Puma says the numbers seem low, but they wouldn‘t likely be even that high if folks heeded the warning signs.

Puma says the rule of thumb remains, “When Thunder Roars Go Indoors.”  Puma says summertime is the time when most people are hit by lightning.  Puma says more men get hit by lightning than women.  He attributes that to mainly because men are more likely to remain outside rather than seek shelter during those storms.

Last night, the board of the First Christian Church in Salem unanimously voted to hire Syd Dye as the new full time pastor of the church.

Dye, a graduate of Freed Hardeman University in Tennessee and owner of Religious Workers Association, will lead the church beginning July 1.

Join WSLM at the Washington County Fair tonight at its booth in the 2nd Commercial Building. Stop by and win prizes for the kids and sign up to win a variety of tickets — Holiday World, Louisville Bats, Cincinnati Reds, Kentucky Speedway and more!

1220 AM Country will also be signing you up for the Texaco Country Showdown to be held next week at the Pekin Park on July 4th!

Today’s activities at the fair include:

• 8:00 – 10:00a – Livestock check in.
• 8:30 – Noon – Open Class Exhibit Entries check in.
• 5:00p – Open Class Exhibit Hall & Commercial Building Displays Open
• 5:00p – 9:00p – Beef BBQ
• 6:00p – Midway Opens
• 6:00p – Sheep Show begins
• 8:00p – West Washington County Fellowship of Christian Churches
• 8:00p – Queen Pagaent at the Grandstand – $6 adults, $4 children 6-12.

Check back daily for pictures, contest results and more information on the Washington County Fair.

Indianapolis community leaders are meeting one final time tonight (Monday, June 24th) to discuss the future of voting in Marion County.

Clerk Beth White says the “Voter Experience Project” is all about how to upgrade voting equipment and procedures in the county. White says current voting equipment is fine, but it‘s also twelve years old and upgrades will be needed.

White says they haven‘t discussed costs connected to upgrading equipment. She says the project is still assessing needs and concerns involved in the overall process.

After tonight, White says the project will hold a series of public hearings and gather comments from residents about the types of voting procedures and equipment they think works best for the county.

Hearings are set to begin in September. White says they‘ll start to examine the costs associated with the project in early 2014.

An annual survey assessing children‘s well-being in the 50 states ranks Indiana 30th — one spot better than last year.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation ranks the states on 16 measures in four broad categories. Indiana vaulted ahead 13 slots to 21st place in children‘s health, largely on the strength of a half-a-percent improvement in four years in the number of low birth-weight babies.

Indiana Youth Institute president Bill Stanczykiewicz says that translates to hundreds of lives.

The percentage has steadily improved for four years — Stanczykiewicz credits efforts to educate women on the importance of prenatal care and avoiding alcohol and tobacco during pregnancy.

A decline in the number of child deaths due to fewer car crashes also boosted Indiana‘s health ranking.   

The improvements were offset by backsliding on economic measures. One in four Hoosier children lives in poverty, while one in three have parents without fulltime jobs.

The data are from the recession year of 2011, but have been going up for six years. Stanczykiewicz says the slippage underlines the need to improve job training and education. Indiana‘s performance on education and “family and community” measures, such as the number of children in single-parent homes, was essentially unchanged.

A jury has recommended the death penalty against a convicted arsonist and murderer. After five hours of deliberations, the jury unanimously recommended that Clark County Circuit Judge Dan Moore impose the death penalty against Jeffrey Weisheit.

Weisheit was convicted Tuesday of setting fire to his girlfriend‘s Evansville home in April 2010, killing her two children.

Weisheit had plead not guilty to all charges. The jury found that all aggravating circumstances made by the State outweighed any mitigating circumstances from Weisheit and his attorneys. Judge Moore set a sentencing hearing for July 11.

At that hearing, he will hear victim impact statements from Weisheit‘s family and friends, any comments or evidence from either side and will review a pre-sentencing investigation prepared by his probation staff. If the judge does impose the death penalty, he will set an execution date at that hearing.