Woman gets deferred sentence for crash

A Box Elder woman who pleaded guilty to negligent vehicular assault in June was sentenced Monday to a three-year deferred sentence in state District Court.

Melissa Moran, 27, will serve three years of probation. If she violates the terms of her deferred sentence anytime during that three-year period, she can be sentenced to prison for up to 10 years and fined a maximum of $10,000.

Her sentence stems from a Nov. 17 crash on U.S. Highway 87 that sent Sarah Parisian, a 71-year-old Box Elder woman, to the hospital. At the time of the accident, Parisian was being driven to Northern Montana Hospi...