Bus returning from casino crashes

WRIGHT TOWNSHIP -- A bus returning from a casino rolled onto its side in a construction zone early yesterday, injuring 11 passengers. Eleven of the 34 passengers on board the B&W Charters bus were taken to hospitals with mostly bumps and bruises. The bus had left Little River Casino Resort in Manistee about 2 a.m. and was returning to the Kalamazoo area when the driver hit a ditch in a construction zone on Interstate 96, police said. (AP)

A Federal Aviation Administration contracting program, initially hailed as a way to make the agency more efficient, was so poorly managed that it cost the government millions of dollars in overruns, according to a report by the Transportation Department's inspector general. The program was disbanded. (Washington Post)

Directors of the government's legal aid program for the poor secretly debated how to fire the auditor who exposed their expensive meals, use of limousine services, and headquarters move to a ritzy neighborhood. Meeting transcripts show that Legal Services Corp. board members in 2005 and 2006 disparaged Inspector General Kirt West, whose job is to find fraud, waste, and abuse. Two federal lawmakers warned the board against firing West, who still has his job. (AP)

More than one-third of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans seeking medical treatment from the Veterans Health Administration report symptoms of stress or other mental disorders -- a tenfold increase in the last 18 months, according to an agency study. (AP)