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Smithfield man sentenced to prison for hitting and killing pedestrian while drunk

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LOGAN — A 45-year-old Smithfield man is in prison for hitting a pedestrian in a Logan parking lot while drunk last summer. Rebecca Leishman sustained critical injuries and later died.

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