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By Todd Richissin

Billionaire Jacqueline Mars, of McLean-based Mars Candy company fame, admitted in court that she was responsible for an October car crash that killed an elderly woman visiting Virginia for a wedding. 

Mars was in court Thursday and pleaded guilty to reckless driving. See the sentence the judge handed her below along with our full daily digest of news from our Patches in Virginia and DC. 

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