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School bus driver stops on railroad tracks as threat The Associated Press 7:50 AM EDT, October 8, 2008 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - A Daytona Beach school bus driver accused of stopping a school bus on railroad tracks and threatening to leave the children there is under investigation. Glen Teschner's 12-year-old stepdaughter told her the bus driver stopped the bus on the railroad tracks and threatened to leave all the children there to die.

Cass County - Four people died in a crash involving a school bus in Cass County Friday afternoon. Three of the dead are confirmed to be students. The bus belongs to the Twin Lakes School Corporation in Monticello. The crash, which also involved two dump trucks, happened on US 24 about six miles west of Logansport......Indiana State Police say the school bus was headed westbound as two dump trucks headed eastbound. A moped or other small vehicle stopped or slowed down to turn. The first dump truck could not stop in time and tried to avoid the moped by moving...

Bus Driver Suspended After Circling With Children On Board POSTED: 7:08 am EDT September 4, 2008 NEW YORK -- The driver of a school bus that circled Brooklyn for nearly five hours while carrying about a dozen kindergartners and first-graders has been suspended. Authorities say the 53-year-old driver claimed he had gotten lost Wednesday while ferrying the children from the Achievement First Brownsville Charter School to their homes. Parents say their children were shaken by the ordeal that ended when police were called and were finally able to reach the driver. Though he was arrested, the Brooklyn district attorney's office...

8 Killed In New Bombing In Southern Philippines Monday, September 01, 2008 04:11:12 PM DAVAO CITY, Philippines (Mindanao Examiner / Sept. 1, 2008) – A homemade bomb explosion Monday ripped through a commuter bus, killing at least 8 people in the southern Philippines, where security forces are battling Moro rebels, officials said. Officials said the bombing targeted the bus owned by Metro Shuttle in Digos City in Davao del Sur province. At least seven people were seriously wounded in the attack. The bombing occurred at a bus depot shortly before 3 p.m., according to Army Col. Roland Bautista, of the...

The Democratic National Committee is returning a $100,000 donation from embattled Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel made at his birthday fundraiser, saying it goes against a Team Obama ban on PAC money... Rangel presented the donation to DNC chairman Howard Dean at the gala at Tavern on the Green a few weeks ago. "The DNC no longer accepts PAC money," Rangel...been battling a wave of negative press and GOP slams on his four rent-stabilized apartments.

The Obama campaign is denying House Ways and Means Chairman Charles B. Rangel a speaking role at this month’s Democratic National Convention — a move those close to the powerhouse Harlem congressman view as a spiteful snub.

By Michelle Malkin  •  August 13, 2008 05:04 PM While waiting to do a segment with Neil Cavuto on Nancy’s Big Wind Boone-doggle, I watched John McCain’s press conference on the Russia/Georgia conflict. He was looking pretty strong and presidential, and made a high-minded statement in response to a reporter’s question about the Obama camp’s attacks on his aggressive stance. The reporter asked McCain what he thought of Obama foreign policy adviser #299 Susan Rice’s claim that McCain helped cause the war.I’m paraphrasing here, but the gist was that McCain felt it was “no time” to indulge in partisanship and that...

For years, patients staying in Rochester have used free shuttles to get to Mayo Clinic. But now higher fuel prices and the slumping economy are creating a whole new hardship for people already on a tough road. Maybe you can imagine how tough it is for a person battling a life-threatening condition. Now many who have turned to Mayo in Rochester face a new and unexpected battle. Sharon Irwin, Kidney Transplant patient, says, "This is my second kidney, so I lost my first one two years ago." With a new kidney and the pain that comes with it, Sharon Irwin...

Lebanese security officials said a bomb has exploded on a busy street in the northern city of Tripoli, killing at least three people and wounding many. The officials said the target was a military bus in the central Nour Square. They said Wednesday's explosion happened as the streets were filled with people heading to work, causing many injuries. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity for not being authorized to speak to the media. Tripoli has witnessed sectarian clashes in the past weeks that killed and wounded dozens of people. The city is also close to the Palestinian refugee camp...

Did the president have a fall and scrap up his right arm?

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

At least a dozen people have been killed in a bus crash in Sherman, north of Dallas, this morning. Sherman police say the bus was heading north on Highway 75 when it ran off the highway near Park Aveneue a little before 1 a.m. A police department spokesman says they're investigating a report that the bus blew a tire but that has not been confirmed. The bus was apparently on its way from Houston to Missouri. An unknown number of passengers were hurt, some of them critically, and they've taken to area hospitals.

The Greyhound bus left Edmonton at one minute past midnight on Wednesday morning, bound for a destination located two provinces, 20 hours and more than 1,300 kilometres away. More than 30 passengers were aboard Route 1628 including a pair of French tourists, a six year-old boy, and an elderly woman with her daughter. Among them was an aboriginal man in his early twenties, listening to headphones and headed home to Winnipeg. Through the day and into the evening, the bus pushed along the Trans-Canada -- through Lloydminister, Saskatoon and Gilbert Plains - as passengers read books, listened to music and...

A young man beheaded in a savage knife attack on a Canadian cross-country bus has been identified by friends as a "bubbly" 22-year-old man. Canadian police have not yet formally confirmed the victim's identity, but friends paid tribute on Facebook and in e-mails to Canadian media. One told broadcaster CBC that Tim McLean, the presumed victim, was loved by many and called him a "ladies man". Police have charged a 40-year-old man with second-degree murder. Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton, is now scheduled to appear at court in Manitoba.

Canada bus passenger stabs, decapitates seat mate 14 hours ago PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba (AP) — A traveler aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated his seat mate, pausing during the savage attack in central Canada to display the head to passengers who had fled in horror, witnesses and officials said Thursday.

Uighur group claims China bus attacks, threatens Olympics Sat Jul 26, 3:14 AM ET A Uighur separatist group has taken credit for a deadly bus bombing in Shanghai in May and warned of new attacks in China during the Olympics, a group monitoring threats by extremists on the Internet said. In a video statement, Commander Seyfullah of the Turkestan Islamic Party claimed credit for several attacks, including the May 5 Shanghai bus bombing which killed three; another Shanghai attack; an attack on police in Wenzhou on July 17 using an explosive-laden tractor; a bombing of a Guangzhou plastic factory on...

BEIJING - Three separate bus explosions killed at least three people and injured 14 in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming on Monday, media said, amid a security clampdown ahead of next month's Beijing Olympics. The causes were not immediately clear, but the blasts came within a matter of hours of each other in the capital of Yunnan province and less than three weeks before the Beijing Games, which China has warned could be a target of terrorist attacks. An explosion on one bus happened at the Panjiawan stop at 7.10 a.m. and the second blast was nearby, the official...

A naked man was arrested Tuesday morning after hijacking a Citizens Area Transit bus. Las Vegas police said the man, 35-year-old Charles P. Sell, was first seen stealing a beer at the 7-Eleven on the corner of Lamb Boulevard and Washington Avenue about 8 a.m. An officer arrived at the scene and the man fled, a police spokesman said. Sell then climbed onto the back of a moving CAT bus traveling east on Washington, broke one of the back windows with his fists, and climbed in. He threw the driver off the bus and drove it about 200 yards before...

Al-Qaeda Draws New Recruits Via Internet Al-Qaeda is using the Internet to recruit vulnerable young people to its terrorist network, according to a programme aired on Saudi Arabian TV late on Tuesday. Umm Osama, the founder of al-Qaeda's first women-only website, al-Khansa, joined several others on the programme to discuss how they renounced jihadist ideology. Among those who sought a response to this question was an imam from the Medina mosque, Saleh Ibn Awad al-Mudamsi, and the father of a young al-Qaeda suspect held in an Iraqi prison. Read More Qaeda Targets U.S. Oil Interests in North Africa U.S....

...Obama's Electoral Assault Vehicle (EAV) marks an unprecedented advance in presidential campaign transportation. While his detractors call it overkill, the campaign insisted upon its necessity. "The old bus was sufficient for the occasional primary bump in the road, be it financier Tony Rezko or Obama's 'typical white' grandmother," according to Norm Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute. "However, tossing Rev. Jeremiah Wright under the bus caused some lasting damage to the drive train." By the time Obama tossed the congregation of his former church under the bus, campaign transportation officials wondered if a standard luxury coach was up to the...

Federal Money on the Move to Local Transportation Wisconsin could receive a lift from Washington to help public transportation keep up with demand. Thursday night, the House of Representatives approved a bill that sends $21 million to transit agencies in Wisconsin. The money, which includes more than $380,000 for Eau Claire, is designed to help public transportation expand services and reduce fares. Demand is up across the country because of the cost of gas. One study shows that American families are spending close to $100 a week on gas, that’s up almost 40% in the last 5 months.

COLOMBO, June 6 (Reuters) - Several people were killed and others injured in bus explosion during the morning rush hour in a suburb of the Sri Lankan capital on Friday, police said. "There was an explosion in a bus at Moratuwa, a few people were killed and some injured," said police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekara. (Reporting by Ranga Sirilal; Editing by Valerie Lee)

U.S. Wary Of Small Boat Terrorism As boating season approaches, the Bush administration wants to enlist America's 80 million recreational boaters to help reduce the chances that a small boat could deliver a nuclear or radiological bomb somewhere along the 95,000 miles of U.S. coastline and inland waterways. According to an April 23 intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press, "The use of a small boat as a weapon is likely to remain al Qaeda's weapon of choice in the maritime environment, given its ease in arming and deploying, low cost, and record of success." While the United States...

Afghanistan to Ask NATO for Bigger Army Afghan officials will go to the NATO summit in Romania Thursday with a request: pay to increase our national Army by 40 percent. A bigger Army, Afghan officials argue, will allow the US and other coalition members to scale back in the coming years. This appeal comes amid pleas from the US and Canada for other NATO members to commit more to the Afghanistan mission, which many analysts say has floundered over the past year for lack of resources and a coherent strategy. France is expected to contribute another 1,000 forces and...

A 62-year-old policeman was trying to stop the fight between the youths and other passengers where he received heavy blows to his head, stomach and neck. ANTWERP - Following the bus incident in Antwerp on Tuesday where a 62-year-old policeman was badly injured, three young suspects have been taken in. The incident, which took place on Tuesday, saw a group of young migrants got into an argument with the couple sitting next to them on the bus. A fight ensued and the bus driver and one of the other passengers, a plain clothes policeman, came to their rescue. In doing...

  Get off my bus, I need to pray   Prayers please ... the driver holds out hands with palms facing sky    By ALEX PEAKE and ANDY CRICK Published: 29 Mar 2008       A MUSLIM bus driver told stunned passengers to get off so he could PRAY. The white Islamic convert rolled out his prayer mat in the aisle and knelt on the floor facing Mecca. Passengers watched in amazement as he held out his palms towards the sky, bowed his head and began to chant. One, who filmed the man on his mobile phone, said:...

$15 will buy a bus tour of about a dozen foreclosed northeast Ohio properties. ReMax realtor Al Stasek drives past handsome Tudor homes in Rocky River. Several on the block have "For Sale" signs in front of them. He stops at one that has been foreclosed. He's planning to include it on a foreclosure bus tour through the western suburbs. "Instead of shining a negative light on (foreclosed homes), we want to get good people into these homes and raise the values of our neighborhoods back up," he says. He's doing the kind of foreclosure tours that are already happening...

SEASIDE, Calif. — A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school. Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head. Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured.

SEASIDE, Calif. (AP) - A 15-year-old girl who stopped an out-of-control school bus she was riding on was handed a Saturday detention instead because she was skipping school. Marina High School student Amanda Rouse was on a bus with 40 elementary school students Wednesday morning when the driver fell out of her seat after a turn and hit her head. Rouse jumped up and applied the brakes, bringing the bus to a halt after striking two parked cars. No one was injured. She said had asked the bus driver for a ride because she felt sick at school. "She is...

FORT RUCKER, Ala. - A charter bus carrying members of a Marine Reserve anti-terrorism group overturned at an Army base, injuring 23 people. Three Marines were in critical condition Monday. The civilian bus driver was charged with reckless driving and may face additional charges, the Army said. The bus overturned Sunday at Fort Rucker, an Army aviation training center in southeast Alabama. The Marines were leaving the training area after a weekend exercise, Fort Rucker said in a statement. The vehicle landed on its right side with military gear and debris littering the ground. "It went into a curve a...

Petraeus: Al Qaida Trying to 'Come Back In' U.S. military officials said there will be no significant reduction in coalition troops in the Baghdad area as part of an effort to stop the Al Qaida offensive in northern Iraq. They said Al Qaida was trying to reenter Baghdad and reverse its losses in 2007. "Al Qaida is trying to come back in," U.S. military commander Gen. David Petraeus said. "We can feel it and see it, and what we're trying to do is rip out any roots before they can get deeply into the ground." Read More Militants Assert...

Unions in worldwide protests over detention of Iranian labour leaders 6 March 2008 Trade unionists and human rights activists in towns and cities across the world are today voicing their opposition to the continued imprisonment of Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi. The two Iranian trade union leaders, respectively representing Tehran bus workers and bakery workers, have been in prison for several months. Protesters are participating in an ITF campaign day, backed by the trade union movement and Amnesty International. Actions included: protests outside the Iranian embassy and the Houses of Parliament in London, UK, and the delivery of letters of...

Iran's Union Heroes March 06, 2008 The Guardian Today is Free Osanloo Action Day, which will be marked by protests worldwide to demand the release of the imprisoned Iranian trade union leaders, Mansour Osanloo and Mahmoud Salehi. Independent trade unions are banned in Iran. Only state-sponsored labour councils are permitted and, to ensure their loyalty to the state, there are restrictions on who can stand for election to these councils. They are, in effect, instruments of the state for the purpose of controlling and pacifying worker discontent. This corporatist, anti-union character of the Iranian state bears many of the hallmarks...

A hijacker who strapped explosives to himself and took a bus of foreign tourists hostage has been shot dead by police in an incident that will raise concerns over security for this summer's Olympics. The bus, which had 10 Australian tourists and a Chinese translator on board, was in the historic city of Xi'an, home to the Terracotta Warriors, when the hijacker took it over. He demanded "negotiations" and a stand-off ensued for several hours before he was shot dead. The police did not immediately disclose his demands or grievances, but it is unusual for ordinary criminals to target foreigners...

CANTON, Ga. — A school bus has overturned in Georgia's Cherokee County, and authorities say two students are in critical condition. The bus lost control Monday morning on Highway 140 near Canton, about 40 miles north of Atlanta. Cherokee County 911 Center Supervisor Greg Argo said that 28 other students suffered minor injuries.

Surveillance footage from a Gilbert school bus shows the driver and a 15-year-old student physically confronting one another on February 15th.

A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign, hitting a school bus, police say. A woman who identified herself as Alianiss Nunez Morales was driving a van that failed to stop at a stop sign, hitting a school bus, police say. MINNEAPOLIS — A woman who authorities say is in the country illegally and using an alias was charged Friday with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and two lesser charges in a school bus crash that killed four children. A woman who identified herself as Alianiss...

COTTONWOOD, Minn. -- Authorities have confirmed that the the driver of the van that struck the school bus that killed 4 students on Tuesday is an illegal alien. Officials at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement are checking to see where she came from and how long she's been in Minnesota. FOX 9 has also learned that the name she gave to police, Alainiss Morales, is an alias.

CORSICANA, TX -- A driver who apparently took her work rules very seriously abandoned a bus full of former prisoners along a highway because her hours for the day were over, police said. The 40 passengers had been paroled or released from the state prison in Huntsville. Some wore ankle bracelet monitors. They were aboard a charter bus that was headed Thursday to a terminal in Dallas but wound up 60 miles short. "In 31 years in law enforcement I've never seen anything like this," Corsicana Police Sgt. Lamoin Lawhon said. ~Snip~

UNION -- A Monroe County bus driver is arrested after an early morning bus accident. It happened at around 8 o'clock Tuesday morning on Highland Park Road near the Monroe - Greenbrier County line. Officials with Monroe County Schools say after being released from the hospital, the driver of the bus -- Butch Watson -- was arrested and arraigned for driving under the influence after he reportedly blacked out and drove the bus about 50 or 60 feet over a ravine. Eleven children were on the bus when the accident happened. All were in route to Mount View Elementary and...

Is the U.S. Failing in Afghanistan? It was malice in wonderland at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday as Bush Administration envoys insisted things are getting better in Afghanistan, while angry lawmakers from both parties cited facts and figures showing just the opposite. Even the senior Republican on the panel, Senator Richard Lugar, found the Administration's claims wanting. "I'm not sure that we have a plan for Afghanistan," he said. Long seen as the "forgotten war" eclipsed by Iraq in U.S. priorities, Afghanistan is in the Washington spotlight this week with the release of three independent reports concluding...

Take your best guess as to where the 20,000 spy satellite (big as a bus!) will crash to earth. Winner gets lunch with Hillary. My guess... 1. SuperBowl Halftime!

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Groping and verbal harassment is an exasperating reality for women using public transportation in this sprawling capital, where 22 million passengers cram onto subways and buses each day. Some men treat women so badly that the subway system has long had ladies-only cars during rush hour, with police segregating the sexes on the platforms. But that hasn't helped women forced to rely on packed buses, by far the city's most-used form of public transportation - until this week. Acting on complaints from women's groups, the city rolled out "ladies only" buses, complete with pink signs in...

A goth who leads his girlfriend around with a dog lead and collar was stopped from getting on a bus amid fears for passenger safety, a bus firm confirmed. Dani Graves, 25, and his fiancee Tasha Maltby, 19, of Dewsbury, West Yorks, claim they have been discriminated against by bus firm Arriva Yorkshire. The black-clad couple said they had been told to leave one bus and prevented from boarding another. The bus firm said safety came first, but it was investigating the complaint. Bus operator Arriva claimed other passengers could be put at risk if the bus braked sharply. Operations...

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s cash-strapped campaign says it will no longer lug around the news media. While candidates who have won multiple contests are expanding their campaigns to travel with more reporters critical for covering their events, the former Arkansas governor, who has only won Iowa, is getting out of the media transportation business. Huckabee came in a disappointing second in South Carolina, a state full of conservative Republicans (a constituency that helped deliver a victory for him in Iowa), and he placed third in Michigan after spending several days there to try to knock off the state’s native...

A bus carrying about 40 casino workers rolled over and caught fire on an interstate in southern Nevada, authorities said on Thursday. The bus overturned on I-15 near Primm, Nev., just across the state line from California. Four people were airlifted to Las Vegas hospitals in critical condition, and at least 10 others who were injured were transported by ambulance, authorities said, adding that it was "miraculous" that nobody was killed in the accident... The bus rode against the side of the wall until it ended and then fell on its side, bursting into flames.

Still in Control Pervez Musharraf was calm, confident and—despite a flurry of rumors—not about to announce his resignation. Instead, the Pakistani president's "concession" to his troubled nation was an announcement that he would allow Britain's Scotland Yard to help local law enforcement agencies with their investigation into last week's assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. Speaking in a nationally televised address two hours after Pakistan's election commission announced the postponement of the ballot to Feb. 18, six weeks later than had been scheduled, Musharraf was notably deferential in his remarks about Bhutto, often invoking her "martyrdom" and extolling...

Every time Israeli student Iris Yoffe takes the bus to Jerusalem, she has to be ready for abuse from ultra-Orthodox Jews who say she should be kept off because she's wearing trousers. Assuming she makes it onto the bus at all -- on several occasions groups of Orthodox men have tried to block the door -- Yoffe, 24, heads for the "women's section" at the back of the bus, keeps her head down and tries to ignore the insults. "I end up feeling helpless and humiliated, like an outsider," said Yoffe, whose public bus from her home in northern Israel...

Prosecutors in Baltimore have decided not to charge the nine middle school students accused in the beating of a 26-year-old woman on a city bus with a hate crime as a judge postponed their trial yesterday until Jan. 31. In court yesterday, Assistant State's Attorney Janet S. Hankin requested the addition of two charges: malicious destruction and disorderly conduct. The teens had previously been charged with aggravated assault and destruction of property.