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DA: Pregnant driver was on drugs in fatal 2008 crash

A pregnant woman had been drinking, taking an anti-anxiety drug, and was speeding and talking on a cell phone when she hit a car head-on last year in Ridge, killing a couple in their 70s, a Suffolk prosecutor said Thursday. Jennifer Jorgensen, 30, was arrested Wednesday night on a warrant from a grand jury indictment charging her with second-degree manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide, driving...

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