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U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- Four students were killed Tuesday in a school bus crash in southwestern Minnesota, authorities said. The students were in a Lakeview School bus that was hit by a van around 3:25 p.m. on Minnesota Highway 23 north of Cottonwood, Minnesota State Patrol L.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jan 8, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- With no cell phone service in the remote stretch of road where their tour bus rolled down an embankment, the uninjured flagged down a motorist who had to drive about two dozen miles to get help. Most of the 51 passengers returning home from a ski trip.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Seven people were killed and 20 injured after a tour bus carrying people on a ski trip left a highway and rolled over Sunday night in southeastern Utah, a highway patrol spokesman said. At least 50 people were on the Arrow Stage Lines bus when it crash.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Dec 12, 2007 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Assailants shot six young people Tuesday at a school bus stop, wounding two critically, in a midday attack that followed a fight over a high school girl, authorities said. School police arrested three teenagers in the fight hours before the shooting in.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Dec 6, 2007 @ 11:50pm neoform

Examiner -- As Sarah Kreager, 26, tried to sit down on a Baltimore City bus Tuesday, police say, a middle-schooler told her she couldn’t. When she attempted to take another seat, a middle-schooler wouldn’t let her. Finally, according to police, Kreager just sat d.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- A bus hopped a highway median and crashed into a pickup truck before being broadsided by an 18-wheeler, Arkansas police said, killing the pickup driver and two bus riders. Forty people were hurt in Sunday night's crash, which shut down a 13-mile stretch o.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jun 25, 2007 @ 6:39pm neoform

FOX News -- A bus carrying people home from a family reunion crashed on an interstate in southern Kentucky early Monday while passengers were asleep, killing one person and injuring 66 others, officials said. Police said it appeared the driver had dozed off. State.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jun 21, 2007 @ 9:27am neoform

Yahoo News -- A transit agency chief apologized Wednesday to two teenage girls who were kicked off a city bus for kissing each other. The girls, both 14, said the driver called them "sickos" after a female passenger complained about their kiss. The driver then stopp.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat Apr 28, 2007 @ 2:02pm neoform

USA Today -- A bus crash on Saturday injured 19 people, at least one critically, authorities said. A New York City Transit bus and a car collided shortly before 6 a.m. in Queens, said Jeremy Soffin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Fift.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 2, 2007 @ 8:22am neoform

CNN -- At least six people were killed when a charter bus carrying a college baseball team fell from an overpass onto Interstate 75 early Friday in Atlanta, police said. Dozens also were injured in the crash just north of downtown, Atlanta Fire Department spo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Feb 28, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- A gunman fired into a crowd of people at a Los Angeles bus stop Wednesday, wounding eight, including children, authorities said. The incident took place about 3:15 p.m. at the intersection of Central and Vernon avenues, in an area of the city where police.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Feb 20, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- A school bus and several other vehicles crashed in southwestern Minnesota on Tuesday, killing four students and injuring more than a dozen others, authorities said. The bus was hit by a van around 3:25 p.m. on a highway south of Cottonwood. The bus then h.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jan 30, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- At 8:25 every weekday morning, Jim and Judy Little stand on their front porch to make sure their granddaughter, Shelby, gets safely on the school bus that takes her to her elementary school. Then they watch as the bus drives across a bridge that, at the b.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- A charter bus rolled off icy roads in far southeastern Utah, killing seven and injuring about 20 passengers. About 80 passengers were on board the bus when it crashed Sunday about 10 miles north of Mexican Hat, in the Four Corners region where Utah mee.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Mon Nov 26, 2007 @ 8:18am neoform

CNN -- A passenger bus collided with a pickup truck and a tractor-trailer rig in northeastern Arkansas, killing three people. The Tornado Bus Co. bus was westbound on Interstate 40 about 10 p.m. Sunday when it veered across the median into eastbound lanes. State.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Oct 19, 2007 @ 12:02pm neoform

SF Gate -- Fremont police released a sketch Thursday of a suspect they say tried to kidnap a 12-year-old boy at a bus stop. At about 8 a.m. Wednesday, the boy was waiting at a bus stop near Fremont and Peralta boulevards when the man pulled up in a car and ordere.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Oct 16, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco police believe that a man killed by a Municipal Railway bus Sunday committed suicide, investigator said today. Relatives of 30-year-old Zachary Sebring of San Francisco told police he had a history of mental illness and had once tried to.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Jun 5, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

Washington Post -- Every weekday, Metro pays overtime to a group of bus drivers whose regular shifts include being on standby in case of accidents or other emergencies. Many workers at the transit agency are able to double their salaries with overtime. Metro retirees enjoy.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Tue May 29, 2007 @ 10:42am neoform

Los Angeles Times -- Re "MTA approves steep hikes for bus, rail fares," May 25 The argument that bus fares should be increased boils down to the assertion that bus riders should fund bus services. This ignores the fact that buses are public goods. Buses provide a valuab.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform

Washington Post -- Two jobs?" blares a poster at a bus shelter here. The words are in Spanish over a picture of a tired-looking Hispanic woman in a janitor's uniform. "Work and Work but You Still Can't Get Ahead?" reads another ad on a bus shelter down the street. At the bo.. Read More