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A northern Illinois mother has been sentenced to 45 days in jail and 4 years of probation for a fatal DUI crash that killed her infant daughter and injured three other children.

She sobbed as the sentence was handed down in LaSalle County court Friday.

She’s scheduled to begin her jail sentence next week. She’ll also have to pay a fine to the Sandwich Fire Department.

Prosecutors say she was drunk when the van she was driving hit a snow plow near Sandwich last January.

She’s had 16 surgeries since the crash to repair two crushed ankles, two broken kneecaps, a broken leg, and a dislocated hip.

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Emmy winner and 30 Rock guest star Rip Torn has been sentenced to probation in a drunken-driving case stemming from his December 2008 arrest.

A Connecticut judge approved the actor’s admission into an alcohol-education program on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. Torn, 78, must also retake his driver’s test because of his severe hearing impairment, but he is still allowed to drive.

Torn was arrested near his Salisbury, Conn., home after police saw him driving in a breakdown lane. He pleaded not guilty to illegal operation of a motor vehicle under the influence and failure to drive in the proper lane in January.

Torn had two previous brushes with the law on similar drunken-driving charges: He paid a fine and temporarily lost his license in April 2007, and was acquitted of drunken driving and causing a crash in 2004.

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