Elizabeth L. Dura, a former circulation systems assistant at The Washington Times, was sentenced to six months behind bars on a charge stemming from embezzlement of nearly $100,000 from the newspaper.

The 53-year-old woman was accused of stealing $96,000 by  generating hundreds of paychecks for “ghost” carriers and teenage hawkers, prosecutors said.

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