Local

The cost of a local highway project, which couldn't previously obtain funding, mysteriously drops impressively overnight.

"Ohio Department of Transportation District 7 officials said this week it will cost about $15.5 million instead of the previously estimated $27 million to widen I-70 from Enon Road to U.S. 68."

Apparently we're supposed to believe that some combination of material, equipment and labor costs dropped by 43 percent overnight. Or maybe the locals grossly overpriced the project to fleece the rest of the state, like pretty much all government projects do, and the state called their bluff, so they relented and proposed a somewhat closer to honest estimate.

Another I-75 wreck in construction in West Carrollton.