EVENING NEWS HEADLINES - MARCH 18, 2013
STEUBENVILLE RAPE THREATS
Two teenage girls are in custody, charged with making social media threats against the victim who was raped by two high school football players. A local sheriff says the Facebook and Twitter threats include a death threat. Yesterday a judge convicted the football players of raping the 16-year-old girl in August. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is now calling for a grand jury investigation to decide whether anyone else should be charged, including adults who may have known about the attack but didn't report it to the police.
GAS PRICES
Gas prices are on their way up. Again. AAA reports the average price for a gallon of regular gas in Ohio is $3.67. Toledogasprices.com says the lowest price locally is$3.47 at Costco. The high is $3.94 at the Speedway on West Laskey and Jamieson.
BGSU TENTATIVE CONTRACT
(AP) - Bowling Green State University says it has reached an agreement on its first contract with the school's faculty union. Both sides announced today that they have agreed on a deal that still needs approval from the union's members and the university's board of trustees.
DAYTON PARTY
(AP) - Administrators at the University of Dayton plan to meet this week to discuss an unruly weekend party in a student housing area that had to be quelled by riot-equipped police officers. WHIO-TV reports the pre-dawn St. Patrick's Day crowd of more than 1,000 people was climbing on cars, throwing bottles and yelling at police early yesterday morning.
CAMPUS ATTACK FOILED
(AP) - A University of Central Florida spokesman says it appears that a student who committed suicide there today had planned an attack on campus. The campus police chief says the student's timeline was thrown off by a rapid response. Two guns, a large amount of ammunition and explosive devices were found in his room. He apparently pulled a fire alarm in the dorm to get other students out in the open for an attack.
LINDSAY LOHAN BACK TO REHAB
(AP) - Lindsay Lohan will have to spend 90 days in a locked-down rehabilitation facility that she won't be able to leave. That's one of the terms of a plea deal she accepted today in court in Los Angeles, where she pleaded no contest to three charges stemming from an automobile accident in June.
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