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Court Date For Woman Charged With Texting In Fatal Crash

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) -- A western Maryland woman is due in court in Hagerstown on charges she was texting behind the wheel when her car struck and killed a bicyclist in January.

The status hearing Monday is for 24-year-old Nadine Rager of Hagerstown. She was charged in March, about six weeks after the hit-and-run collision that killed 47-year-old John Bushman.

Rager is charged with manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident and unlawful text messaging.

Bushman was a forklift operator. He was killed Jan. 29 while riding his bicycle along West Washington Street, also known as state Route 144, just west of Hagerstown.

(Copyright 2015 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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