Firefighters from Licking and Fairfield counties work to remove more than 50 Archbishop Alter High School students from a charter bus that crossed the median on I-70 just east of Rt. 79 and hit an eastbound car late last night. Charter bus crash kills 1 5 on class trip hospitalized when bus crosses I-70 median, hits car BUCKEYE LAKE, Ohio -- A charter bus carrying high-school students home to a Dayton suburb crashed head-on into a car on I-70 late last night, killing the car's driver and injuring more than a dozen on the bus.

Today's Top Stories

• Jury awards $4.2 million to teacher after tragic fall
• Ash borer beats trappers to bait tree
  Deadly bug is back in Delaware County
• Emerald ash borer infestation
• COMMENTARY: Bereaved grateful for spotlight on OSU fire

Central Ohio news

• FOOD-STAMP FRAUD: Grocer pleads guilty
• SUBURBAN BRIEFS

State and local government

• Police, firefighters asked to bear greater pension cost
  Changes expected to generate nearly $75 million a year
• Former coroner's rehab not enough
  28 days needed to reinstate license

Election

• Bizarre behavior, arrest lead candidate to pull out
  He said he was FBI agent, frisked people
• Slot-machine petitions must be revised
  Petro wants disclosure of gambling hours
• Spending limitation splits GOP candidates
  Blackwell, Petro face off on ballot amendment
• Flannery, Strickland go toe-to-toe during encounter
  Democratic hopefuls stress differences in meeting at 'Dispatch'
• Voters fear for privacy
  New voting machines don't have curtains
• Ohio falling short of voting law, warning says

Around Ohio

• Miami's procedure to dissolve Western called 'orchestrated'
  School president's decision expected today or Friday
• NEWS BRIEFS
• LESSER CHARGES: Akron man pleads guilty in killing of prostitute
• Former pension official on trial
  She is accused of accepting gifts
• Man indicted in death of Amish boy
• Ohio power plants emitted more carbon dioxide in 2005

Community news

• Vital statistics
• Daily almanac

Other stories

• Powell subdivisions (April 13)

Of continuing interest

• Pipeline from Mexico
  A look at the human pipeline that runs between Columbus and El Paxtle
• Docs Rate Docs
  Who do doctors go to when they're sick?
• The Alrosa Villa Shootings
  Complete coverage from The Dispatch and WBNS-10TV
• I-270 shootings
  Complete coverage from The Columbus Dispatch, WBNS-10TV and ONN: Ohio News Network
• Prison Medicine
  Health care in Ohio's 33 prisons is plagued with serious, deadly problems
• Campaign 2004
  An archive of Dispatch, WBNS-TV and ONN articles from the 2004 election

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