Drunk Driving Suspect Accepts Plea Deal In Fatal Accident

Published June 8, 2010 at 4:35 p.m.
Newton Keene will spend 28 years in jail...

...A St. Louis man accused of driving drunk and killing three people has accepted a plea deal. The Madison County State's Attorney says Newton M. Keene pleaded guilty to three counts of Aggravated Drunk Driving. In February 2009, Keene drove the wrong way on Interstate 255 near the Gateway Commerce Drive exit near Edwardsville, Illinois. He was driving southbound in the northbound lanes when he struck Tawanda Jackson.


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