Extra: School bus crash; Power back on; Nominees drop out
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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.
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Johanna
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02-05-09 7:05 PM
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Holmes..Are those typos or were you a poor student? Who are you addressing about Devola?
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my2boyz
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02-04-09 8:55 AM
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We have officials who make the school delay decisions for us. We either trust their decision or drive our kids ourselves. Either way, it is what it is: an accident. Any driver knows that when ice is on the road, and you hit it, there's not much you can do. At the beginning of the school year, it's always on the news about the buses being out and being cautious in our driving, well, that goes for the enitre school year! My son was on that bus, and thankfully he is ok. He assures me that there was nothing the bus driver could've done differently.
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Francia
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02-04-09 8:21 AM
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I retired as a school secretary 3 years ago after 20 years in an Ohio school. We had 2 hour delays and even 3 hour delays at least the past 18-20 years. When there is "any" delay due to weather, drivers should drive with caution. Black ice is treacherous and usually (which is why it is named such) not that visible.
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Holmes
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02-04-09 7:48 AM
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1. This is clearly George Bush's fault. 2. Only a pretentious goofus would use a word like blase'_Period. How ARE things in Devola.
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Johanna
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02-04-09 12:13 AM
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My only issue with this, beside the child/children hurt...was the blase' attitude of the Bus Super on the News that I saw in a passing article in a store today. I recall Rex Presher being the Man of the Job in my day and he would never have been so ....disconcerned!!! He would have been at the Hosp. with the child hurt!!!
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Indian
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02-03-09 10:57 PM
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When delays first began about 10 years ago(give or take 1 year or two), we did have a couple one hour delays, then they switched to tweo hour that made more sense. Before you say no, call the Board office tomaorrow and ask. If you find I am wrong let me know. I will yield.
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Spider1
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02-03-09 10:20 PM
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The 2 hour delays have only been around for a few years in Ohio.
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Indian
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02-03-09 10:15 PM
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On the other hand if they were on normal hours the bus would not have been there at that time.
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mttamom
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02-03-09 8:02 PM
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*would
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mttamom
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02-03-09 8:02 PM
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Maybe if MCS had actually been on the "normal" 2 hr. delay the salt trucks sould have had ample time to get out. This accident occured just before the 1 hr. was about to expire, salt trucks didn't hit the area until 9:13a.m. Never im my years at MCS or in living here do I ever remember a 1 hr. delay.
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JohnnyRingo
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02-03-09 5:52 PM
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Do any of those sob's pay taxes? Different man, different party, same s**t!!!
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newsnut
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02-03-09 4:52 PM
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this is change
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