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A young man was stabbed in the chest while travelling through northern Ontario on a Winnipeg-bound Greyhound bus Sunday afternoon -- less than two hours after passengers say the attacker was put on board by members of the Ontario Provincial Police. The victim -- identified by witnesses as an Asian male in his mid-20s -- was rushed to hospital and is expected to survive. Police arrested the suspect near the town of White River, just moments after the driver allowed him to get off at the side of the highway. "We don't know why he was with the police or...

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of radical advocacy groups, but even in that context, PETA’s latest advertising campaign sets new lows.  Last week, an attacker beheaded and cannibalized a man on a Canadian bus, a revolting crime that made headlines around the world.  But where human beings saw tragedy and lunacy, PETA saw … opportunity: An animal rights group has posted an ad on its website comparing the recent stabbing and decapitation of a young Winnipeg man to how humans kill animals for food.People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said the advertisement is meant to make...

TORONTO, Canada (AP) -- Greyhound has scrapped an ad campaign that extolled the relaxing upside of bus travel after one of its passengers was accused of beheading and cannibalizing another traveler. The ad's tag line was "There's a reason you've never heard of 'bus rage.'"

WINNIPEG - The family of a young man stabbed to death and beheaded on a Greyhound bus in Manitoba on Wednesday night finally spoke out Saturday, calling 22-year-old Tim McLean "a little guy with a heart bigger than you could know."

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.

By Steve Lambert, The Canadian Press WINNIPEG - Manitoba RCMP had no answers Thursday as to what prompted a man on a Greyhound bus to suddenly stand up and repeatedly stab his seatmate, behead him and carve up his body in front of horrified passengers. Police would only say that a victim was stabbed on the bus that had left Edmonton for Winnipeg, but passengers described a gruesome, unprovoked attack that left them shaken. ((My first news post I hope I did it right if not have mercy,.,))

A 40-year-old man is in custody in Manitoba after a young man was stabbed — and, witnesses said, decapitated — aboard a Greyhound bus travelling through the province overnight. Police officers spent Thursday examining a Greyhound bus where a passenger was reportedly stabbed and decapitated late Wednesday. The RCMP would not confirm the reports of beheading, saying only that a stabbing took place around 8:30 p.m. CT on an eastbound Greyhound bus on the Trans-Canada Highway about 20 kilometres west of Portage la Prairie. The suspect, believed to be from outside Manitoba, was arrested early Thursday morning after a standoff...

Knife-wielding man beheads fellow passenger on bus (video)

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. — A man was stabbed to death then beheaded on a Greyhound bus in an apparent random act of violence, according to an eyewitness. All lanes of traffic on the Trans-Canada Highway remained closed Thursday morning west of Portage la Prairie as the RCMP investigated what they would only refer to as "a major incident" on the bus that was headed from Edmonton to Winnipeg. At about 8:45 p.m. the vehicle was stopped in the eastbound lane following an apparent assault. Garnet Caton, one of 37 passengers on the bus, said he witnessed the attack. "We...

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~

From WPXI-TV NBC Pittsburgh... A Greyhound Bus accident kills at least one outside MOntgomery Alabama < breaking > At least one person is dead and 45 injured in a Greyhound bus accident outside Montgomery Alabama this morning. So far no word on what caused the accident.

Multiple passengers were injured when a Greyhound bus traveling from New York City to Montreal crashed through a guard rail on the Northway late Monday and landed upside down at the bottom of an embankment, police said. State police reported six unconfirmed deaths, but they have not yet been confirmed by a medical examiner, said Trooper Ryan Bentley of the Westport barracks. The Plattsburgh Press Republican reported from the scene that several people were killed. Former Mayor Daniel Stewart and his partner, Jon Recor, were among the first people at the crash site. They provided a blanket to cover some...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Interstate 95 is closed in both directions between Baymeadows Road and Southside Boulevard as police respond to report of a heavily dressed, uncooperative man with a gun on a Greyhound bus, Channel 4 reported. Police said they received a call from a mobile phone at 10 a.m. saying there was a suspicious person in the back of the bus. Jacksonville Sheriff's Office spokesman Ken Jefferson said the interstate was closed and all traffic is being kept away from the bus, which is pulled over in the southbound shoulder of the the interstate. Click here to find out...

LACONIA, N.H. -- Police said that they have identified two dogs responsible for killing a Maltese dog and biting her owner. The owner of the greyhounds came forward Sunday, police said. The owner of the Maltese, Doug Hammond, said that he and his wife are heartbroken at the loss of their dog, Katie. He said that his wife, Kathy Hammond, 60, was walking the dog Saturday afternoon when they came upon another woman walking two greyhound dogs. "One of the greyhounds saw the small dog and went after it," Capt. Mike Moyer said. "The woman walking the greyhounds was unable...

SANTA MARIA, Calif. - A Greyhound bus carrying 42 passengers overturned Sunday, killing two people and injuring more than three dozen others, authorities said. The accident occurred about 7:10 a.m. on Highway 101 in Santa Maria in northern Santa Barbara County, said Capt. Keith Cullom of the county Fire Department. He said two people were killed but details weren't immediately available. The bus had left Los Angeles about four hours earlier and was headed to San Francisco, said Kim Plaskett, a spokeswoman for the Dallas-based bus line. Relief buses were being sent to Santa Maria to collect the passengers who...

One recent afternoon at the Greyhound bus terminal in San Ysidro, Latino passengers waited to travel to points north such as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. What they didn't know as they waited is that for the past three years, the Dallas-based bus company has warned its employees not to sell tickets "to anyone you know or believe to be an illegal alien," or face termination, arrest or both. Greyhound said the internal policy is based on federal law and is meant to address immigrant smuggling, and was put in place for fear of legal consequences if the law is...

Associated Press SAN DIEGO — Greyhound Lines Inc., the nation's largest intercity bus company, has threatened to fire employees who sell bus tickets to illegal immigrants under an internal policy that some Hispanic advocacy groups are calling an invitation to racial profiling. The "Transportation of Illegal Aliens" policy warns Greyhound's customer service employees to beware of people in large groups, moving in single file and traveling with little or no luggage. It says other telltale signs include people "trying to hide or stay out of plain view" or large groups led by a "guide" who holds everyone's tickets. Greyhound also...

SAN DIEGO -- Greyhound Lines Inc., the nation's largest intercity bus company, has threatened to fire employees who sell bus tickets to illegal immigrants under an internal policy that some Hispanic advocacy groups are calling an invitation to racial profiling. The "Transportation of Illegal Aliens" policy warns Greyhound's customer service employees to beware of people in large groups, moving in single file and traveling with little or no luggage. It says other telltale signs include people "trying to hide or stay out of plain view" or large groups led by a "guide" who holds everyone's tickets. Greyhound also says immigrant...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (Reuters) - Greyhound Bus Lines complained to Louisiana's prisons department to stop referring to a temporary New Orleans jail, that was once its bus station, as Camp Greyhound, a prisons official said on Monday. The Greyhound bus station in New Orleans was converted into a makeshift jail by police trying to restore law and order in a city rife with crime and lawlessness in the days after Hurricane Katrina hit. "Greyhound called us on Friday and asked us not to refer to it as Camp Greyhound anymore," Pam Laborde, communications director of Louisiana's department of corrections told...

Personnel surround the C-2 Greyhound checking to see why its landing gear wouldn't deploy. The plane landed at 7:15 p.m. on its belly at Norfolk Naval Station. bill tiernan/the virginian-pilot. NORFOLK — A Navy cargo plane made an emergency belly landing at Norfolk Naval Station on Monday after circling the airfield for more than two hours because its landing gear had malfunctioned.None of the 25 people on the plane were injured in the spark-filled landing, which Navy officials called “textbook.’’ The C-2 cargo plane took off from the Norfolk Naval Station at 5:10 p.m. It was one of six...

Hello everyone. I'm pinging all who responded to my original thread about the little Chihuahua mix who needed a home so desperately back in late March, early April. You all were so very kind in giving me tips on where to get help. Some of you offered to take the dog yourselves, and several of you sent checks to my vet where the dog who came to be named Ricky was being boarded after I balied him out of the pound. To the latter group, I would have sent each of you a personal thank-you note, except for the fact...

Somebody put the runaway bride up at match.com. I kind of wish I'd thought of it first. It's a hoot. Probably getting alot of laughs down in the Duluth area online looking for dating prospects.

DALLAS - Greyhound Lines Inc. will stop bus service to many small towns between Chicago and Seattle to cut costs and focus on its most profitable routes. The company announced Friday that it would close 260 stops, leaving 99 in its 13-state northern region effective Aug. 18. Greyhound will make similar changes in other regions of the country over the next two to three years, said chief executive Stephen E. Gorman.

The following is the e-mail I sent to Greyhound yesterday, and the response I received today. Keep up the pressure folks. ........................................................ Your support through your advertising on the venemous Air America has led me to choose Trailways or some alternate transportation method in the future. I hope you will reconsider your allegiance to those who despise those in the US Armed Forces. ........................................................ Thank you for contacting us with your concerns about Greyhound ads on WLIB radio. We have conducted an investigation into the matter. Our media placement firm bought advertising on the American Urban Radio Network (AURN) as...

<p>EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) -- Authorities closed highways and the New Jersey Turnpike's western spur after a Greyhound bus carrying 16 passengers was stopped and evacuated Sunday.</p> <p>Greyhound spokeswoman Kim Plaskett said the FBI is involved.</p> <p>Local police and the FBI did not release any details for several hours after the incident, which began just before noon.</p>