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A former Mason County Board of Education member has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for her guilty plea to a bribery charge.

Media outlets report Teresa Warner was sentenced Friday in Mason County Circuit Court.

She pleaded guilty in April to bribery in official and political matters. Under a plea agreement, five other bribery counts were dismissed.

Warner was accused of selling passing grades on GED tests to residents from 2002 to 2010.

She resigned from the school board in January after she was arrested on a drunken-driving charge. She pleaded guilty to that charge in April and was fined $500.

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