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EVENING NEWS HEADLINES - FEBRUARY 22, 2013

BGSU ROOM AND BOARD

Bowling Green State University students will pay a little more to live on campus next year. BGSU trustees today approved a 2.37 percent room and board increase today. A spokesperson says the new rates still rank Bowling Green fifth lowest among Ohio's 13 universities. University of Toledo leaders approved a freeze on tuition, housing and meal plans late last year.

EXPIRED MEDICINES

University of Toledo students are working to get expired medications out of your cabinets. Doctors say the outdated medicine may not work and could even be dangerous. That's why UT students are taking part in the "Script Your Future" campaign. Pharmacy student Christian Jeric says, "If you flush all your medications, it can contaminate the water supply and infect the environment and harm people." Students will be at the Walgreens on Reynolds and Dorr next Friday from 3pm until 7pm.

KASICH SCHOOL FUNDING PLAN

(AP) - Leaders in at least some financially struggling Ohio school districts are rallying behind Governor John Kasich's funding plan. A half dozen superintendents from around the state spoke with reporters today to describe how their districts would benefit from the Republican governor's approach.

BENGHAZI DOCUMENTS

(AP) - Republicans are getting the documents they demanded on Benghazi. A congressional aide says the White House has agreed to give the Senate Intelligence Committee documents related to the attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in the Libyan city. GOP senators had called for the documents as a condition of voting on the nomination of John Brennan to be the CIA director.

AZURE OUTAGE

(AP) - Microsoft is dealing with a worldwide outage to its Azure storage service. The software maker says its Azure service went down this afternoon and is preventing customers from accessing files kept in Microsoft's data centers. The company hasn't said what caused the outage.

RADIOACTIVE WASTE TANKS

(AP) - The governor of Washington says six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking. Gov. Jay Inslee calls that "disturbing." Inslee met today with federal officials in Washington, D.C. It was revealed last week that one of the 177 tanks at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was leaking liquids.

LANCE ARMSTRONG LAWSUIT

(AP) - The Justice Department has joined a lawsuit against Lance Armstrong. The suit alleges the disgraced cyclist concealed his use of performance-enhancing drugs and defrauded his long-time sponsor, the U.S. Postal Service. The lawsuit alleges that riders on the team, including Armstrong, knowingly violated their agreements with the postal service.