The Associated Press

WOOSTER, Ohio - School officials in a district where the policy is to allow students freedom of speech confiscated the latest edition of the high school newspaper before it could be released.

Superintendent David Estrop said the Wooster High School newspapers were taken on the advice of lawyers who said the publication had inaccuracies and was potentially libelous.

But student editors say copies of The Wooster Blade were seized Thursday because an article quoted the daughter of a school board member saying she had consumed alcohol at a November party.

Principal James Jackson said a teacher told him about a possible problem in a story about students who drank alcohol at the party.