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Cement-truck driver pleads not guilty in bus driver's death

Originally published: January 23, 2013 7:02 AM
Updated: January 23, 2013 10:05 PM
By KEVIN DEUTSCH AND BART JONES kevin.deutsch@newsday.com,bart.jones@newsday.com

Raymond Ragen, left, 44, of Mineola, faces arraignment

Photo credit: NCPD; Howard Schnapp | Raymond Ragen, left, 44, of Mineola, faces arraignment Wednesday in First District Court in Hempstead in the July 23, 2012, crash, pictured right, that killed mini-school-bus driver Jorge Guevara, 45. (Jan. 22, 2013)

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School bus, cement truck collide in Locust Valley The Jericho Fire Department responded to a report

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A trucker arrested on vehicular homicide charges was high on a prescription drug and using a cellphone when his cement mixer plowed into a school bus last summer in Locust Valley, killing the driver, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Raymond Ragen, 44, of 35 Washington Ave., Mineola, was under the influence of Valium, and talking on his cellphone in the moments before the July 23 head-on collision,...

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