An Olney man was sentenced in Howard County Circuit Court on Thursday to a year in prison for negligent homicide as 100 friends and family members looked on.

James Lubbers, 36, admitted in court in June to drunkenly slamming his car into a guardrail on Route 108 on a November 2005 evening, a crash that killed his co-worker and friend, Carmen White.

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