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    Disabled woman's care before dying on bus still a mystery

    CBC Radio's The Current has broadcast a documentary about a 48-year-old Alberta woman with developmental problems, Betty Anne Gagnon, who died in November 2009 in a filthy converted bus that had no heat, electricity or running water. More...
  2. the doctor

    Bus crash that killed Pa. coach being investigated

    Police are investigating what caused a bus carrying a college women's lacrosse team to veer off the Pennsylvania Turnpike and crash into a tree, killing a pregnant coach, her unborn child and the driver. More...
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    Guelph officer dies in line of duty after transit bus collision

    A Guelph police officer died after losing control of her cruiser, crossing the median line and colliding head-on with a transit bus while responding to another officer's request for assitance in the line of duty, police say. More...
  4. FTA Hacker

    1 dead, more hurt in Pa. school bus crash

    A school bus collided head-on with a large truck in Pennsylvania Wednesday, killing at least one person and leaving many others injured, authorities said. The 2:30 p.m. EDT crash on Route 281 between Somerset and Confluence involved a bus from the Turkeyfoot Valley Area School District and a...
  5. the doctor

    Toll reaches six in Kenyan capital bus station blast

    NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya blamed Somali al Shabaab rebels on Sunday for grenade attacks that killed at least six people and wounded scores at a bus station near the heart of the capital Nairobi a day earlier. Internal Security Minister George Saitoti said four grenades were hurled into the...
  6. FTA Hacker

    Kids found living in abandoned Texas bus

    Investigators say they are probing why two children were living in a broken-down school bus parked in a garbage-strewn property in Splendora, Texas. Jamie Nash of Montgomery County's Precinct 4 Constable's Office said a postal worker Wednesday discovered a girl, 11, and her brother, 5, who...
  7. the doctor

    Police: Gunmen kill 18 bus passengers in Pakistan (AP)

    AP - Gunmen attacked a bus in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 18 passengers on board, police said. More...
  8. No Warranty

    Passenger bus rolls near Redwater, Alberta

    At least 30 people were injured, some seriously, when a Red Arrow passenger bus rolled over Friday afternoon near Redwater, Alta. More...
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    B.C. teen slain on bus to be honored

    A large turnout is expected at a public celebration of life of Jamie Kehoe, the Surrey, B.C., youth who was stabbed to death when he stepped in to help a friend during a fight on a Metro Vancouver bus. More...
  10. CASPER

    Gunmen kill 22 bus passengers in west Iraq: police

    Gunmen killed 22 passengers on a bus coming from Syria late Monday in a desert region west of Baghdad, police general Haider Rzayj told AFP. "Some armed men stopped the bus coming from Syria Monday around 9:30 pm (1830 GMT), they made the 22 passengers get off the bus and killed them with...
  11. CASPER

    Officials: 22 Shiite pilgrims found dead in Iraq

    BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen forced their way onto a bus of traveling Shiite pilgrims Monday and shot all 22 men onboard as they traveled through western Iraq's remote desert on a trip to a holy shrine, security officials said. The bodies were discovered late Monday night, hours after the gang of...
  12. FTA Hacker

    School bus crash injures 15 children, 8 adults in Pennsylvania

    (CNN) -- Fifteen children and eight adults are recovering from injuries after a school bus slammed into a car and rolled over near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, authorities said. The bus, carrying 22 people, was on its way to a children's camp when the wreck occurred Sunday, the Pennsylvania State...
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    Car hits school bus carrying 30 students

    No one was injured when school bus carrying 30 students was involved in an accident Thursday afternoon in Antigonish. The school bus was at the intersection of Highway 104 and Church Street when a car hit the bus just before 3 p.m. The car blew a tire, lost control and hit the bus, according...
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    Public school board hikes bus fees

    Public school board trustees have raised the monthly fee for busing students and dropped the family maximum that limited what Calgary parents had to pay. The $40-a-month maximum has been eliminated for the next school year, which means parents will soon pay the full monthly amount for each...
  15. FTA Hacker

    DOT: Bus company involved in deadly wreck tried to change name

    (CNN) -- The company that operated a commercial tour bus involved in a deadly crash this week has been issued a cease-and-desist order after the U.S. Department of Transportation said it tried to resume operations under a different name. Four people were killed and 53 others injured Tuesday...
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    B.C. Greyhound bus collision kills 1, injures 2

    <div> A car collided with a Greyhound passenger bus in the B.C. Interior early Saturday, killing the woman behind the wheel of the car and injuring the bus driver and a passenger, the RCMP said. The accident occurred around 4 a.m. MT on Highway 3 between Fernie and Sparwood, near Hosmer, about...
  17. FTA Hacker

    Saggy trousers banned on Texas buses

    "Pull 'em up or find another ride," reads signs on city buses in Ft. Worth. The signs went up after the Ft. Worth Transportation Authority, known as "The T," implemented a new policy that prohibits any passenger from boarding a bus with saggy trousers that expose the person's underwear...
  18. FTA Hacker

    Driver in fatal Virginia bus crash to be arraigned

    (CNN) -- The driver of a commercial tour bus that crashed earlier this week, killing four people, will be arraigned Friday. Kin Yiu Cheung, 37, of Flushing, New York, has been charged with reckless driving. Investigators blamed the wreck on driver fatigue. The Virginia State Police Motor...
  19. FTA Hacker

    4 victims of Virginia bus crash identified

    (CNN) -- Police on Wednesday released the names of four women killed when a commercial tour bus ran off I-95 and overturned early Tuesday in Caroline County, Virginia. The victims were identified as Karen Blyden-Decastro, 46, of Cambria Heights, New York; Sie Giok Giang, 63, of Philadelphia...
  20. FTA Hacker

    2 dead when tour bus overturns

    Seattle (CNN) -- Two people were killed and 21 others were reportedly injured when a tour bus rolled over on Interstate 90 in central Washington, according to the Washington State Patrol and CNN affiliate KING. The two fatalities were a 51-year-old man and a 45-year-old woman, both passengers...
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