Woman gets 3 years in jail for death of girl

WARREN -- A 57-year-old Arnold Drive Southwest woman was sentenced to three years in jail for aggravated vehicular homicide in the death of a 10-year-old girl.
Sandra Carmichael was sentenced Tuesday by Judge Andrew Logan of Trumbull County Common Pleas Court. She had pleaded guilty in October, and the judge had requested a background check before sentencing.
Carmichael struck Tanara Earnest, 10, of Third Street, May 9 with her car. Tanara and two friends were walking on a sidewalk along Highland Avenue; Tanara died shortly after being hit.
Carmichael could have received up to eight years in prison. She will also face a mandatory lifetime driver's license suspension because she was intoxicated at the time of the accident, officials said.
Tanara was a fourth-grader at Roosevelt Elementary in Warren.