Ohio woman pleads guilty in hit-and-run death

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BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A 49-year-old Ohio woman haspleaded guilty in the hit-and-run death of
a 15-year-old boy who wentmissing before his body was found in a roadside ditch last fall.Policesay Cathy
Humphries was drunk and had marijuana in her system when shehit 15-year-old Austin Houser as he walked along
a road Oct. 25 in thevillage of Rushsylvania, about 60 miles northwest of Columbus.The Columbus Dispatch
(http://bit.ly/15hAJWD ) reports that Humphries
pleaded guilty Monday to drunken driving and failure to stop at a crash scene.Humphries told her family that
she had been in a crash but thought she’d hit a mailbox.Prosecutors said her blood alcohol level was more
than three times the legal limit. Sentencing is scheduled for May 20.___Information from: The Columbus
Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013
The Associated Press.BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio (AP) — A 49-year-old Ohio woman haspleaded guilty in the
hit-and-run death of a 15-year-old boy who wentmissing before his body was found in a roadside ditch last
fall.Policesay Cathy Humphries was drunk and had marijuana in her system when shehit 15-year-old Austin
Houser as he walked along a road Oct. 25 in thevillage of Rushsylvania, about 60 miles northwest of
Columbus.The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/15hAJWD ) reports that Humphries pleaded
guilty Monday to drunken driving and failure to stop at a crash scene.Humphries told her family that she had
been in a crash but thought she’d hit a mailbox.Prosecutors said her blood alcohol level was more than three
times the legal limit. Sentencing is scheduled for May 20.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press.

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