CLOSE Fox News host Jeanine Pirro went after Hillary Clinton during her “Justice with Judge Janine” show Sunday. Veuer's Maria Mercedes Galuppo (@mariamgaluppo) has the story. Buzz60 
 
 Jeanine Pirro was ticketed for speeding upstate. (Photo: Andy Kropa /Invision/AP) 
 
 It always seemed like Jeanine Pirro couldn’t get out of Elmira fast enough. But on Sunday she was in a rush to get there. 
 
 The Fox News celebrity and former Westchester County district attorney was ticketed by a state trooper Sunday for driving 119 mph in the Southern Tier town of Nichols. 
 
 Pirro was pulled over at 1:15 p.m. on Route 17, said a spokeswoman for the state police. he speed limit there is 65 mph. 
 
 Nichols is about 25 miles from Elmira, where Pirro grew up. 
 
 Pirro got on the line when a reporter called a relative’s home in Elmira on Monday afternoon. She hung up when asked about the ticket. 
 
 But Fox News Channel issued a statement from her. 
 
 “I had been driving for hours to visit my ailing 89-year-old mom and didn’t realize how fast I was driving," she said in the statement. "I believe in the rule of law and I will pay the consequences.” 
 
 Pirro has until Jan. 8 to answer the ticket in person or by mail. According to the state Department of Motor Vehicles driver-point system, a conviction for driving 40 or more miles over the speed limit results in 11 points on a driver's license. Eleven points in an 18-month period is grounds for a license suspension. 
 
 After a stint as a Westchester County judge, the former prosecutor became district attorney in 1994. She served three terms, then opted not to run for a fourth in 2005 so she could challenge Hillary Clinton in the race for U.S. Senate the following year. 
 
 That contest got off to a horrible start when Pirro lost a page of her speech and stood silent in front of the microphones for more than 30 seconds. She gave up the race months later, opting instead to run for New York attorney general. She lost the election to now-Gov. Andrew Cuomo. 
 
 For the past several years Pirro has had her own show on Fox News, "Justice with Judge Jeanine." 
 
 Pirro put her Harrison home up for sale for just under $5 million in 2015. It is still on the market, listed for $3.7 million. 
 
 Check back later for more on this story. 
 
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 Read or Share this story: https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2017/11/20/jeanine-pirro-fox-news-ticketed-driving-119-mph/881345001/ ||||| NEW PRAGUE, Minn. (WCCO) — A driver who was texting when she hit and killed a 79-year-old New Prague man will spend four days in jail after a judge ordered her sentence on Monday. 
 
 A Le Sueur County judge sentenced 48-year-old Susan Ann Russo for the accident that happened nearly one year ago on Oct. 28, 2015. 
 
 The victim, Joe Tikalsky, was a school bus driver who was walking out to his mailbox outside of his home when he was hit. 
 
 The Tikalsky family is choosing action over anger. 
 
 Emma Jean Tikalsky, who was married to Joe Tikalsky for 54 years, said Monday was the first time she and her children met with the driver who hit her husband. 
 
 “We cried together and they begged us, my daughter and myself, ‘Would you please find it in your heart to forgive us?'” Emma Jean Tikalsky said. “I knew that was the godlike thing I would be expected to do and we did. We said yes.” 
 
 The Tikalskys hope other drivers will realize it only takes a split second to take a life and change the lives of so many more people. 
 
 “Four days or 400 days, it really doesn’t matter,” Emma Jean Tikalsky said. “I know she didn’t mean to kill anyone.” 
 
 Joe Tikalsky drove a New Prague school bus for almost 50 years. 
 
 He was wearing his reflective jacket from work when he walked out to get the paper and was hit near his mailbox. 
 
 “It’s even more scary knowing that we have this society that is, I’ll say, addicted to their phone,” Joe Tikalsky’s son Greg said. “His kids were his pride and joy and his grandkids were his pride and joy.” 
 
 The family is working with lawmakers to lobby for more strict and defined distracted driving laws and consequences in Minnesota. 
 
 It is illegal right now to read or send texts while driving, even when stopped at a light. 
 
 “We care about people living and something must be done,” Emma Jean Tikalsky said. 
 
 Russo will spend two days in jail on the anniversary of Joe Tikalsky’s death this year and two days next year on the anniversary as part of the agreement. 
 
 Russo will also pay a $3,000 fine that the family wants used to raise awareness against distracted driving. ||||| NEW YORK -- A woman who had a seizure behind the wheel of her car which then rolled into a Brooklyn crosswalk, killing the 4-year-old daughter of a Tony Award-winning actress and a 1-year-old boy, was arrested on manslaughter charges Thursday for deaths that prosecutors said should never have happened. 
 
 Just two months before the March crash, prosecutors said, a medical episode caused the woman, 44-year-old Dorothy Bruns, to drive into a parked car. She then had a seizure while hospitalized and was told by a doctor not to drive for one year -- advice that was repeated during two follow-up appointments. 
 
 Despite those instructions, Bruns was involved in a fender bender on Jan. 20 and left the scene, according to prosecutors. 
 
 And then, on March 5, Bruns suffered another seizure while stopped at a red light in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Her car rolled into the crosswalk, striking actress Ruthie Ann Blumenstein and her 4-year-old daughter, Abigail, and Lauren Lew and her 1-year-old son, Joshua. Both children were killed. 
 
 "She didn't listen, for whatever selfish reasons, and she continued to drive," prosecutor Craig Esswein said Thursday in court. "And unfortunately, two families lost children because of the defendant's selfishness." 
 
 A defense attorney, however, disputed that, according to CBS New York. 
 
 "The defendant was given a letter by that neurologist clearing her for her regular activities," defense attorney David Jacobs said in court Thursday. 
 
 Horrifying video footage captured at the scene of the deadly crash shows the white car moving into the crosswalk as the unsuspecting pedestrians are mowed down. 
 
 Bruns was arrested Thursday at her Staten Island home. She pleaded not guilty in a Brooklyn court to charges that included manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide and reckless driving. 
 
 A call to Bruns' attorney wasn't immediately returned. She was ordered held on $75,000 bond and faces 15 years in prison if convicted on the top charge. 
 
 "Her alleged insistence on driving despite doctor's orders and serious medical conditions that prevented her from safely doing so was not only irresponsible, it was unlawful," said District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. 
 
 First-responders to the Brooklyn crash said she was foaming at the mouth, confused and unsteady on her feet, and then suffered another seizure in the ambulance on her way to the hospital and again at the hospital, prosecutors said. 
 
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 Blumenstein, who is pregnant, was hospitalized in intensive care but later said in a statement that she was healing. 
 
 "By all accounts it is a miracle our second child is unharmed," the statement read. "Please continue to pray for the Lew and Blumenstein families as we process the unthinkable." 
 
 Blumenstein, who goes by the stage name Ruthie Ann Miles, won a featured actress Tony in 2015 for her role as Lady Thiang in a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I." It marked her Broadway debut. Blumenstein's other credits included "Sunday in the Park with George" opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and playing Imelda Marcos in David Byrne's off-Broadway musical "Here Lies Love." She had a recurring role on the FX series "The Americans." 
 
 The crash prompted New York Mayor Bill de Blasio to propose changes to state laws that would extend and expand speed enforcement cameras around school zones, escalate fines for repeat offenders up to $350, and strip vehicle registration for dangerous drivers. Such drivers could be people with serious medical conditions.
– The New York Times calls Jeanine Pirro of Fox News a "high-octane host"; it seems the adjective could apply to her driving, too. Pirro says she was driving to visit her "ailing 89-year-old mom" just after 1pm Sunday when she was pulled over in Nichols, NY, some 25 miles east of her hometown of Elmira. State police say she was driving 119mph; the speed limit was 65. I "didn’t realize how fast I was driving," she said in a statement. "I believe in the rule of law and I will pay the consequences." As for what those consequences could be, Lohud cites the NY Department of Motor Vehicles point system, which states a conviction for driving 40 or more miles over the speed limit results in 11 points on a driver's license. Drivers who rack up 11 points within 18 months may lose their license. Pirro must answer her ticket in person or via mail by Jan. 8. A police source tells the New York Daily News the Justice with Judge Jeanine host was driving a Cadillac at the time. (This driver was going much faster.)