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MTA bus driver who hit FIT student had been suspended for texting BY Pete Donohue DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, November 9th 2009, 4:00 AM Jeremy Philhower was driving city bus on Wednesday when he hit student Seth Kahn (below). Oates for News Jeremy Philhower was driving city bus on Wednesday when he hit student Seth Kahn (below). Related News * Articles * Stricter driving laws urged to prevent deaths of text-happy teens * Leah Ignagni confirmed as Steve McNair's other, other woman * Parents don't get the message on teen 'sexting' habits * Local college freshman wrecked his first...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - She drives students to school each day, but on Tuesday a driver's morning route became a violent nightmare. Police say the driver became the victim of a student's rage, and instead of driving the bus to school, she was rushed to the hospital. The Kalamazoo school-bus driver is recovering on Wednesday after being badly beaten. The incident occurred on Tuesday, around 7:30 in the morning near the corner of Gull Road and Brook Drive in Kalamazoo Township. Police say that a 16-year-old male repeatedly punched the driver in the face and head. The teenager is...

Michelle has a clip from CNN that demonstrates the silliness of the mortgage-bailout efforts of the Obama administration. Minta Garcia and her family bought an $800,000 home that they could not afford, using speculative lending as a lever. The value of the house has dropped to $675,000, and now Garcia faces foreclosure. However, the coverage omits a critical piece of the puzzle:

A Rogers husband and wife who worked as a pastor and school bus driver were sentenced Monday to four years in prison for cooking methamphetamine in their family home. Joseph and Barbara Sisneros pleaded guilty last week to a reduced charge of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture as part of a plea agreement between Deputy Prosecutor Drew Ledbetter and defense attorneys Blake Warren and Bobby Digby. "This meth lab was not a small operation," Ledbetter told Benton County Senior Circuit Judge Tom Keith. "Certain people should be held to a higher standard. At best, the court could...

  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:...

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: “He was clearly praying and chanting in Arabic. “We thought it was a wind-up at first, like Jeremy Beadle.” The 21-year-old plumber added: “He looked English and had a London accent. He looked like a Muslim convert, with a big, bushy beard. “Eventually everyone started complaining. One woman said, ‘What the...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A bus driver struck a passenger about the head with a phone after the rider refused to give up his seat to an elderly woman, police said. The driver, Larry Woods, 44, and the rider, Christian Custis, 22, were arrested and charged with assault and harassment after the incident on the Q43 bus in the Jamaica section of Queens. Woods was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. The men were arraigned in Queens Criminal Court. According to police, Woods asked Custis to give up his seat when the woman using a cane boarded the...

WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. - As a school bus driver, Angelynna Young held a special place in society, said Grant Commonwealth Attorney Jim Crawford: She was a trained professional, entrusted daily to be of a clear mind so she could ensure the safe passage of children to and from school. She failed miserably, Crawford told a judge Wednesday. "The bus wreck (was) not a bus accident, as I've heard today," Crawford said before asking Circuit Judge Stephen Bates to sentence Young to 22 years in prison for causing the crash that injured 17 middle-school students, two critically. Bates imposed that sentence, saying...

Investigation continues in death of bus driver By Dawn Gagnon Saturday, June 30, 2007 - Bangor Daily News BANGOR — The bus accident that claimed the life of an 82-year-old city bus driver Wednesday remains under investigation by city and state officials. As usually is the case where workplace fatalities are involved, the investigation likely will not be wrapped up for another few weeks, Assistant City Manager Robert Farrar said Friday. Participating in the effort to determine what went wrong are the Bangor Police Department accident reconstruction team and criminal investigation division, as well as Maine State Police commercial vehicle...

The anecdote was widely reported and commented on in recent days, leading the Issaquah district to release a statement today saying it was not the only incident the driver had been involved in. The statement said: "This incident has to do with the responsibility of an employee who is supervising students to act professionally and serve as a role model for appropriate behavior," Superintendent Janet Barry said. After leaving the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the bus driver waited with a busload of middle school students on an onramp closed for the Presidential motorcade. The bus driver made an obscene...

SEATTLE — A school bus driver fired after she reportedly made an obscene gesture at President Bush has filed a union grievance in an attempt to get her job back. The 43-year-old driver, whose name was not released, was driving middle school children back to school after a zoo visit on June 16 when the president and Republican Rep. Dave Reichert drove slowly by in a motorcade. From the bus, the children waved; with the windows down in their car, Bush and Reichert waved back. That's when the driver gave the president the finger, according to Reichert and Issaquah superintendent...

ISSAQUAH, Wash. — A school bus driver who was fired for "flipping off" President George W. Bush is trying to get her job back. The 43-year-old has filed a union grievance against the district, claiming wrongful termination. U.S. Rep. Dave Reichert said the obscene gesture occurred as he was traveling in the president's limo in June on the way to a fundraiser in Medina. At a freeway ramp the limo passed several Issaquah school buses. The students waved to the president and Bush waved back. Bush was having a good time until he saw the driver, Reichert said. Bush turned...

CARACAS, Venezuela Sep 23, 2006 (AP)— President Hugo Chavez said his foreign minister was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport Saturday for more than hour as he tried to return to the South American country. Chavez told Venezuela's state TV broadcaster that U.S. officials alleged that Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro had links to a failed coup that Chavez led in Venezuela in 1992. "They have held him accusing him of participating in terrorist acts here," Chavez said in Venezuela. "He didn't even participate in that patriotic rebellion." Both Venezuelan politicians were in New York this week attending...

Venezuela has accused US officials of stopping its foreign minister and stripping him of his travel documents after he visited the UN. President Hugo Chavez said that the minister, Nicolas Maduro, had been questioned about his alleged role in a failed Venezuelan coup attempt in 1992. "That is absolutely false - he didn't even participate," Mr Chavez, who led the abortive coup, added. No US comment on the Venezuelan reports was immediately available.

Torture in Tehran May 20, 2006 National Review Online Michael Ledeen I am sorry to have to post this, a video of the leader of Tehran's bus drivers' organization (it is forbidden to call it a union) after a torture session in an Iranian prison. But it seems otherwise impossible to convince Western leaders that we are confronting a monstrous evil, that seeks to destroy or dominate us by all possible means. The sort of horror you see on this video is repeated every day, sometimes leading to execution, sometimes to further sadism. Secretary Rice: do you really believe...

NEW ORLEANS — An Algiers man hailed by some as a hero for commandeering a school bus the day after Hurricane Katrina to take 60 stranded residents to safety in Houston has been arrested on drug charges where his bus journey began: the Fischer public housing complex. Jabar Gibson, 20, who garnered a movie deal and national attention as the renegade bus driver, was booked Friday with possession with intent to distribute heroin after police stopped his rental car for allegedly driving erratically, New Orleans police said. Gibson and another man, Gary Burnett, were traveling near the public housing complex...

LONDON BOMBINGSGreek bus driver taken into hiding by police as key witness The Greek driver of the bus blown up in one of the London attacks last Thursday is under police protection at a secret location the Athens News Agency reported yesterday. Giorgos Psaradakis, 47, survived the blast with minor injuries. The bus’s CCTV system was not working on the morning of the attacks so the Metropolitan Police consider Psaradakis a key witness to events leading to the explosion, which killed 13 people. Meanwhile, a service for the victims of the London bombings is to be held at 10.30 a.m....

FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — A school bus driver was released from jail on $150 bail after she drove a busload of students off their route to join her daughter in a fight in front of another school. Leslie Mae Jones, 33, of Fort Myers, quit her job Friday, a day after she was charged with breach of peace. Apparently, while Jones was driving students home, her daughter called her from a cell phone and told her she was in a fight with other teens. Jones drove to that school and allegedly left about 30 middle school students on her...

OTHERS ON SCHOOL BUS UNINJURED - "CUMBERLAND CITY, Tenn. - A 14-year-old boy was charged with shooting a school bus driver to death as she drove her morning route yesterday. A relative of the driver said she had reported the boy a day earlier for using smokeless tobacco on the bus."

BUENA VISTA, Pa. — A school bus driver encouraged students to jump around, throw things and misbehave on her moving bus so she could make an audition videotape for the reality television show "Survivor," police said. Maureen Monaghan was charged with recklessly endangering children after allegedly urging 10 students to act up on her bus for the video, which she hoped would earn her a spot on the CBS show. A separate camera on the inside of the bus recorded the Jan. 6 incident, and the bus company gave the footage to police. "She encouraged the children to be disorderly...

GRAND ISLAND, N.Y. (AP) - An elementary school bus driver was fired after sharing a statistic she had read about embryonic stem cell research with students, then encouraging them to tell their parents about it.

School bus driver faces charges of receiving child pornography By KELLIE TOLBERT AVALANCHE-JOURNAL A Durham School Services school bus driver was recently arrested on charges of receipt of child pornography. Jim Charles Teague, age and hometown unavailable, allegedly downloaded and saved images of a young girl involved in sexual intercourse with an adult man onto a floppy disk in August 2003, according to an affidavit. Teague used his daughter's computer and entered chat rooms disguising himself as a divorced bisexual female with two children, the affidavit states. The affidavit said he used several screen names. When chatting online, Teague and...

A bus driver in Montana has appeared in court for hitting a young schoolboy who kept saying "penis" on board his bus. James Campbell, 62, received a deferred sentence in Helena's City Court after appearing on a charge of assault. According to City Prosecutor Bob Wood, the charge was levelled against Campbell after a 12-year-old passenger on the bus he was driving reported Campbell slapped him across the head. Wood said the dispute between Campbell and the student began when he objected to the boy loudly repeating the word "penis" despite his request to stop, says the Independent Record. The...

An Austin High School student suspected that something was amiss, police say, when the driver of the bus he and nine other teens were riding wheeled into a parking lot for an unexpected stop at a Jack in the Box. He used his cell phone to alert his father about the unusual Friday afternoon trip home, and a few minutes later, authorities had arrested and charged the driver of Bus 6034 with driving while intoxicated with children in the vehicle. Austin school officials placed Christina Bell Lowery, 47, on administrative leave with pay Monday and said they are in the...

Former bus driver convicted of sexually assaulting 12-year-old boy BY KERRY DRENNAN AVALANCHE-JOURNAL Sonja Childers broke into tears Thursday afternoon after being convicted of raping a 12-year-old boy. Jurors deliberated almost three hours before finding her guilty of aggravated sexual assault of the boy who rode the school bus she drove. The conviction came after three days of testimony from the victim, now 14, his brother, Durham Transportation employees, police officers and Childers' friends and neighbors. On Thursday, prosecutor Brian Kingston drew a chart listing all the witnesses, then asked Childers about different elements of her version of events that...

Bus driver suspended for marijuana possession The Associated Press - DUBLIN, Ga. A school bus driver who reported his marijuana stolen to the police resigned from his job Friday, a day after being suspended from his route. John Randolph, 29, called police to his home Monday and reported that someone stole $40 worth of marijuana, among other belongings. Randolph worked for McLendon and Sons Bus Service, where manager Harold McLendon made him take a drug test, which came out clean. Randolph told the officer investigating the burglary he was saving the marijuana to smoke when school was out. Randolph has...

Just heard a teaser for the 11PM ABC 7 news that a bus driver was attacked causing a crash in the central valley of California causing fatalities. More to come....breaking news... Fresno to SF Greyhound bus going 70 MPH one man or two slashed the drivers throat causing crash. On I5. At least 10 serious injuries and 2 deaths. One attacker in custody.