Ohio State University and Ohio University have settled their trademark dispute about the word ''Ohio,'' a fight involving millions of dollars from the sales of sweatshirts, hats and other paraphernalia.

Residents examine project
by Erika Smith
THE POST

Nearly 900 Lancaster residents examined the newest design changes to the Lancaster Bypass project at an open-house meeting Tuesday and Wednesday.

The Public Involvement Meeting, which was sponsored by the Ohio Department of Transportation, was the third community meeting about the project in recent history.

Program held to discuss teaching procedures
by Brian Minges
THE POST

Parents, teachers, community members and Ohio University students discussed good middle school teaching practices last night in a meeting led by Rosalie Romano and Jim Schultz, both OU professors in the Teacher Education Program.

Local men held in Georgia carjacking
AP

FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. (AP) - A woman abducted by a carjacker thwarted the crime by secretly dialing 911 on her cell phone and then talking with the driver, dropping clues for the emergency dispatcher into the conversation.

Green left the phone hidden in the bag and tried to give the dispatcher clues about what had happened and where she was.

Union Street Kentucky Fried Chicken testing Athens market for delivery
by Gail Cetnar

Finger-lickin' good chicken is just a phone call away for hungry students since a new Kentucky Fried Chicken with delivery service opened April 19.

The new KFC, 235 W. Union St., is the second such restaurant in Athens. The older KFC, 60 E. Stimson Ave., has a dining area but does not offer delivery. The new store offers only delivery and take out.

Suit says exec took secrets
AP

CINCINNATI (AP) - A company which provides school bus service around the nation is suing a former executive it accuses of stealing inside information to lure away customers.

Careline combines care, prevention
by Amanda Fischer
THE POST

Celebrating 20 years of helping sexual assault victims through the Sexual Assault Survivor Advocacy Program makes John Hall proud.

Although he has been with the program for just four years, Hall has moved from being a volunteer to the coordinator of the program in Athens, Hocking and Vinton counties.

Last goodbye in Colorado
AP

DENVER (AP) - To the spirited sounds of a large gospel choir, nearly 5,000 mourners bade farewell yesterday to the last of the Columbine High dead: Isaiah Shoels, whose killers apparently took particular delight in shooting him because he was black and an athlete.

Teen takes gun, hit list to school
AP

A 13-year-old California boy with a loaded handgun and a hit list of 30 names was arrested at school yesterday - the most serious of another wave of bomb scares and threats to disrupt schools since the Colorado massacre.

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Ohio head baseball coach Joe Carbone, then an assistant to Marshall head coach Jack Cook, remembers it all too well - with a smile that is. He remembers it as a day that marked the beginning of a huge change for college baseball or, as he said, a "renaissance."

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Indians, Red Sox suspended
AP
THE POST

>NEW YORK (AP) - Jaret Wright and Jim Thome of Cleveland and Darren Lewis and Rheal Cormier of Boston were suspended yesterday for their parts in two brawls last Friday night.

WNBA
WNBA, union agree
AP

NEW YORK (AP) - For the second time this month, negotiators for the WNBA and its players association reached agreement yesterday on their first collective bargaining agreement.

Seniors and co-captains Lee McCloskey and Marianne Beshara won't be back for seconds, either. The rest of the Bobcats and a few new ones will condition and lift weights three days a week and return to full practice and lifting for five weeks in the fall.

WOMENS'S TRACK
Track team improves with addition of grad student
by Elizabeth Price
THE POST

The Ohio women's track team is lucky to have Tisha Franklin competing this spring.

Franklin, a graduate student, didn't plan to use her final year of collegiate eligibility after completing her undergraduate career at Long Island last year. She looked at graduate schools and made an academic choice to attend Ohio to earn her degree in athletic administration.

"I was going to try to get in without using my last year, be finished with track," Franklin said. "But I decided to use it. Why not use it? Why just waste it?"