• Vermilion flood waters recede 2:43 p.m. ET

• Crash news caught football team in workout room 2:26 p.m. ET

• Accident rocks college town 2:18 p.m. ET

• Flags at half-staff for bus crash victims 2:11 p.m. ET

• No one hurt in Parma train mishap 1:19 p.m. ET

• Bluffton University mourns crash victims, prays for survivors 1:15 p.m. ET

• Few Bluffton freshmen were on bus 1:09 p.m. ET

• Bus company had just had inspection 1:04 p.m. ET

• AirTran offers free flight to parents of Buffton students 12:16 p.m. ET

• National Journal: Kucinich voting changed in 2004 12:55 p.m. ET

• House approves bill easing unionization

• Policeman indicted in stalking case

• Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Pulitzer-winning historian, JFK aide

• Bill's bumpy path puts its validity in question

• Bills call for sex predators to use fluorescent green license plates

• Bush says U.S. shares the blame on Katrina

• Community News Briefs

• County talks tough to contractors

• Drowning was murder, official says

• Federal election fund-raising rules relaxed

• Flood warnings, watches as rivers are on the rise

• Foreign News Briefs

• George Trammell, 83, police lieutenant

• Greater Cleveland United Way surpasses goal

• Guard's equipment shortages leave U.S. vulnerable, panel says

• Jackson wants Wi-Fi for every Clevelander

• Japan's sex-slave denial likely to rile neighbors

• Key Taliban militant is reported arrested in Pakistan

• Killer tornadoes touch down in the South

• Law and Order

• Lawsuit calls for NOPEC to share arbitration money Lawsuit calls for NOPEC to share money

• Lennon launches drive for Catholic Charities

• Lorain County sales tax hike draws critics

• National News Briefs

• Nick Toth Sr., was Parma firefighter and longtime coach of youth teams

• Ohio eyes gasoline suppliers' write-off

• Professor recognized for book on Japan

• Snow blankets Plains, Midwest

• Strickland wants board of experts to manage workers' comp

• Sunni tribesmen help Iraqi forces in fierce fighting in western Iraq

• Suspect in shootout with police is killed

• Tasty fund-raiser at Chatham VFW

• Tasty fund-raiser at Chatham VFW

• Terrorism charge likely to test new tribunals

• U.S. deaths in Iraq

• Walter Reed hospital chief dismissed

• Weather bringing fear of flooding

• Astronaut charged with kidnap attempt 2:49 p.m. ET

• S.C. county fights for nuclear landfill 2:48 p.m. ET

• Ohio baseball team's bus crashes; 6 dead 2:43 p.m. ET

• Tornadoes' death toll rises to 20 2:32 p.m. ET

• Coast Guard: Distress call likely a hoax 2:23 p.m. ET

• Million rounds of ammo at Calif. house 2:17 p.m. ET