COLUMBUS - Police had to close roads and evacuate businesses near a train yard Tuesday where a rail car leaked toxic acid.

The tanker emptied 23,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid, forming a yellow-green stream at Norfolk Southern's Buckeye rail yard on the west side, authorities said. The leak was reported to the fire department about 11 a.m.

People were allowed to return to the area Tuesday afternoon when a white vapor cloud from the acid dissipated.

State health officials said the acid is more dangerous as a gas and irritates the eyes and respiratory system. Prolonged exposure to high concentrations of the gas can be fatal. No injuries were reported.

Dead student's father says he had to file suit

MUNCIE, Ind. - The father of a Ball State University student who was killed by a campus police officer said Tuesday he had few choices other than to file a lawsuit against the school.

The family of 21-year-old Michael McKinney is seeking $100 million in a federal civil rights lawsuit. McKinney, of Bedford, was shot four times by rookie Officer Robert Duplain during the early morning of Nov. 8 after the officer responded to a call of a stranger banging on the back door of a home south of the campus.

While a Delaware County grand jury cleared Duplain of any wrongdoing, McKinney's family has questioned why the officer was patrolling alone without having attended the state's police academy.

Ball State did not have any immediate response to the lawsuit on Tuesday.

Duplain, who has not commented publicly about the shooting, is now attending the police academy, Shupp said.

UK will relinquish community college

LEXINGTON - Despite the objections of students and faculty of Lexington Community College, University of Kentucky trustees voted Tuesday to move the college from under the oversight of UK to that of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System.

The 15-2 vote came after an emotional two-hour meeting, during which one trustee denounced the administration and fellow board members and left the meeting, not to return.

The trustees' recommendation would have to be approved by the state legislature and Gov. Ernie Fletcher before it could take effect. Margaret Morgan, the college's student government president, said the college's students and faculty will lobby legislators and Fletcher in hopes that they will not approve the trustees' decision.