No-contest plea in fatal Ohio school bus crash

ZANESVILLE, Ohio (AP) — The driver of an Ohio school bus has been found guilty of two misdemeanors in a crash that killed a 6-year-old boy.

Forty-eight-year-old Carol Oler pleaded no contest today and was convicted of charges of vehicular manslaughter and failure to control in the accident last June near Dresden in eastern Ohio.

Authorities said Kasey King, a Nashport Elementary School kindergartner, was the first child passenger to die in an Ohio school bus crash in 22 years.

In exchange for Oler’s plea, a third, more serious misdemeanor count of vehicular homicide was dropped.

A Muskingum County judge set sentencing for March 31. Oler could receive up to 90 days in jail.

Her bus went off a highway, hit a utility pole and flipped.