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<p>LEWISBURG &#8212; Three young men have been sentenced to time behind bars for throwing a rock off a highway overpass in central Pennsylvania, causing severe brain trauma to an Ohio teacher.</p><p>A judge on Thursday ordered the defendants to serve minimum sentences of 4&#189; years, 22 months and 11&#189; months for the July 2014 attack from an overpass on Interstate 80.</p><p>Tyler Porter, Dylan Lahr and Keefer McGee all expressed their sorrow and regret to the victim, middle school language arts teacher Sharon Budd of Uniontown, Ohio. She was in the courtroom for the proceedings.</p><p>A fourth man, Brett Lahr, previously began serving 18 months to 20 years after pleading no contest to a conspiracy count.</p><p>Budd has had seven surgeries since the rock crashed through the front windshield of her car.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">In this file photo, Brett Lahr is escorted from the jail to the courtroom in the Union County Courthouse for a pre-trial motion Tuesday morning, June 23, 2015, in Lewisburg, Pa. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Brett-Lahr.jpg</photo0><caption0>In this file photo, Brett Lahr is escorted from the jail to the courtroom in the Union County Courthouse for a pre-trial motion Tuesday morning, June 23, 2015, in Lewisburg, Pa. </caption0><photoCredit0>Amanda August | The Daily Item via AP </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Dylan-Lahr.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Dylan Lahr is escorted to the courtroom from the Union County jail inside the Union courthouse for his sentencing hearing on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in Lewisburg, Pa. Lahr is one of three young men convicted in a July 2014 rock-throwing incident that caused severe brain trauma to an Ohio schoolteacher as she passed through Pennsylvania in the dead of night. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Dylan-Lahr.jpg</photo1><caption1>Dylan Lahr is escorted to the courtroom from the Union County jail inside the Union courthouse for his sentencing hearing on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in Lewisburg, Pa. Lahr is one of three young men convicted in a July 2014 rock-throwing incident that caused severe brain trauma to an Ohio schoolteacher as she passed through Pennsylvania in the dead of night. </caption1><photoCredit1>Amanda August | The Daily Item via AP </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Sharon-Budd.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 file photo, Sharon Budd, right, speaks with her husband Randy after ringing the &#8220;victory&#8221; bell to celebrate her discharge from Geisinger HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Danville, Pa. Three young men will soon learn their sentences for a rock-throwing incident last year that caused severe brain trauma to an Ohio schoolteacher as she passed through Pennsylvania in the dead of night on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Sharon-Budd.jpg</photo2><caption2>FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 21, 2014 file photo, Sharon Budd, right, speaks with her husband Randy after ringing the &#8220;victory&#8221; bell to celebrate her discharge from Geisinger HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital in Danville, Pa. Three young men will soon learn their sentences for a rock-throwing incident last year that caused severe brain trauma to an Ohio schoolteacher as she passed through Pennsylvania in the dead of night on Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015. </caption2><photoCredit2>AP Photo | Ralph Wilson </photoCredit2></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Tyler-Porter.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Tyler Porter arrives at the Union County Courthouse for a sentencing hearing, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in Lewisburg, Pa. Porter, one of three young men, is expected to learn his sentence Thursday for a rock-throwing incident last year that caused severe brain trauma to an Ohio schoolteacher as she passed through Pennsylvania in the dead of night. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo3>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/web1_Tyler-Porter.jpg</photo3><caption3>Tyler Porter arrives at the Union County Courthouse for a sentencing hearing, Thursday, Sept. 3, 2015, in Lewisburg, Pa. Porter, one of three young men, is expected to learn his sentence Thursday for a rock-throwing incident last year that caused severe brain trauma to an Ohio schoolteacher as she passed through Pennsylvania in the dead of night. </caption3><photoCredit3>Amanda August | The Daily Item via AP </photoCredit3></div></div>
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Rock-throwing that injured teacher results in jail sentences