RSS Feeds  Ex-Minn. Viking's wife imprisoned in fatal crash
Monday - 7/9/2012, 5:00pm  ET  Associated Press  MINNEAPOLIS
(AP) - Amy Senser so regretted a hit-and-run crash that killed a
rising young restaurant chef that she tattooed his name on her
wrist and told his family she waits for the day she can meet
him.  Senser, the wife of former Minnesota Viking Joe Senser,
tearfully apologized to the family of Anousone Phanthavong on
Monday, moments before a judge rejected her request for
probation and sentenced her to nearly 3 1/2 years in prison.
Hennepin County Judge Daniel Mabley said Senser's remorse rang
true, but he wasn't satisfied with her account of what happened
last Aug. 23, when she struck and killed Phanthavong, 38, on a
freeway exit ramp. Mabley said Senser avoided taking
responsibility, even after the panic immediately following the
crash had subsided.  "This avoidance of responsibility was not
out of panic or confusion. It was orchestrated," Mabley told an
overflowing courtroom in Minneapolis.