SCHOOL BUS CRASH:
One student sustained minor injuries Tuesday when a motorist lost control on icy roads and struck a Marietta City School bus, according to police.
Police Sgt. Len Ritchie said Bus No. 2 was eastbound on Lancaster Street near Clark Street when it was struck head-on by an oncoming Dodge pickup truck, driven by David Wellspring, 18, of 451 Greenhill Road, Marietta.
Ritchie said Wellspring was cited for failure to control. He was on his way to class at the time of the 8:10 a.m. wreck.
Marietta City Schools was operating on a one-hour delay Tuesday due to icy roads.
Ritchie said the wreck was the only weather-related incident in the city Tuesday.
The injured student was transported to Marietta Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. Superintendent Herb Young said he believed the student had a previous injury that was aggravated by the collision.
OUTAGES FROM ICE STORM OVER:
AEP Ohio and Washington Electric Cooperative customers whose power was knocked out by last week's ice storm have had their electricity restored, according to the companies.
There were still a handful of outages Monday from the storm that left thousands of Washington, Monroe, Morgan and Noble County residents without power.
More snow is expected overnight but forecasters aren't predicting as much troublesome ice accumulation.
"This'll be a very dry, fluffy, arctic-type snow," said John Victory, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Charleston, W.Va.
Total accumulation is expected to be 2-3 inches, he said.
Snow Monday night and Tuesday morning led some local school districts to institute delays, but none closed.
Wednesday's edition of The Times will include a look at how many snow days local school districts have used.
TWO OF OBAMA'S NOMINEES WITHDRAW:
Tom Daschle withdrew Tuesday as President Barack Obama's nominee to be health and human services secretary, dealing potential blows to both speedy health care reform and Obama's hopes for a smooth start in the White House.
"Now we must move forward," Obama said in a written statement accepting "with sadness and regret' Daschle's surprise request to be removed from consideration. A day earlier, Obama had said he "absolutely" stood by Daschle in the face of problems over back taxes and potential conflicts of interest.
Daschle, the former Senate Democratic leader and a strong backer of Obama's presidential bid, said he would have been unable to operate "with the full faith of Congress and the American people."
Daschle's stunning statement came less than three hours after another Obama nominee also withdrew from consideration, and also over tax problems. Nancy Killefer, nominated by Obama to be the government's first chief performance officer, said she didn't want her bungling of payroll taxes on her household help to be a distraction.
Obama announced the nomination of Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., as commerce secretary Tuesday. His previous nominee, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, withdrew from consideration amid a grand jury investigation into a state contract awarded to his political donors.
New Attorney General Eric Holder, approved by a 75-21 Senate vote on Monday, was sworn in this morning by Vice President Joe Biden and pledged to restore the office's reputation after scandals under the Bush administration.
