{"id":187428,"date":"2026-05-08T19:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187428\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T19:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T19:11:07","slug":"logan-county-circuit-judge-orders-mental-exam-for-woman-charged-in-crash-that-killed-scranton-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187428\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan County circuit judge orders mental exam for woman charged in crash that killed Scranton sisters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLARKSVILLE &#8212; A Logan County judge on Friday ordered a mental fitness exam for an elderly Scranton woman accused of manslaughter after a May 30 high-speed crash on the Morrison Bluff Bridge that killed two sisters.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Jane Phillips, 72, of South Seventh Street in Scranton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rivervalleydemocratgazette.com\/news\/2025\/jun\/05\/teen-driver-elderly-woman-charged-regarding-auto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">is charged<\/a> with two counts of manslaughter, according to Logan County Circuit Court documents. Each charge could result in a penalty of three to 10 years in prison upon conviction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLARKSVILLE &#8212; A Logan County judge on Friday ordered a mental fitness exam for an elderly Scranton woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-187428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}