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The Beatles once sang, “All you need is love.” But will Kamala Harris’ professed LOVE for electric school buses – plus the $1 billion in taxpayer subsidies she announced last October – be enough to usher in the new paradise?Hmm. Let’s do the math. The $1 billion in rebates pledged is to help purchase 2,500 electric school buses in some 391 school districts around the nation. But there are in fact about 500,000 school buses transporting children to and from school, to and from ball games and other events, nearly every school day. By simple calculation, this suggests it will...

U.S. Marshals tracked down and arrested a 15-year-old boy known as “Baby K” on Tuesday for attempted murder in an attack on a student on a school bus in the D.C. suburb of Prince George’s County, Maryland on May 1. A total of four teens aged 14 and 15, three boys and a girl (the alleged mastermind), have been arrested in the attack on the student. Police say the three boys boarded the bus with Baby K wielding a large handgun that he fired several times at the intended victim. The gun reportedly misfired. Baby K and two other suspects...

A truck driver has been recognized for acting to protect students who were boarding a school bus from a passenger vehicle driver in Alabama on Tuesday. The incident took place on the morning of April 4 in Odenville, Alabama, as the driver of a black sedan reportedly attempted to pass a school bus while children were loading. A semi truck driver spotted the car driver attempting to pass the bus and edged his vehicle into the path of the car to block it from passing the bus and possibly injuring students. The incident was partially caught on video by Katie...

Kamala Harris on Friday delivered remarks on electric school buses at Meridian High School in Falls Church, Virginia. Harris was joined by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan. Kamala Harris had some inspiring words for the attendees as she announced a new national initiative for electric school buses. “Think about it: Yellow school buses are our nation’s largest form of mass transit. How ’bout that? Every day — so, yes, and let’s applaud because it gets ’em where they need to go! Ha ha ha!” Harris said. How profound.

Video released by the Albuquerque Police Department this week shows the terrifying moments when a car crashed into a school bus, rolling it over onto its side, in late February. An APD spokesman said at the time that 23 middle school students were on the bus and seven were taken to the hospital. Two of the children had serious injuries in their legs — one of which required surgery — and another child had a pelvic fracture which also required surgery. The driver who police say crashed his white Ford Mustang into the side of the bus, 49-year-old Mario Perez,...

A 70-year-old man imprisoned for the 1976 kidnapping of a bus full of children has been approved for parole, according to spokesperson Joe Orlando of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR). Frederick Newhall Woods, 70, was one of three men who kidnapped 26 children and their bus driver in Chowchilla, a small city in Northern California's Madera County, more than 45 years ago. All 27 captives were taken to Livermore, more than 100 miles away, placed into a moving truck and buried alive in a quarry owned by Woods' father. The kidnappers then demanded $5 million ransom while...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Feb. 25 it is no longer requiring students and others on school buses to wear masks, but is keeping the mask mandate for all other forms of public transportation in place. Effective Friday, “CDC does not require wearing of masks on buses or vans operated by public or private school systems, including early care and education/child care programs,” the agency said in an update on its website. The CDC typically only doles out guidance but under federal law, a top official at the agency on Jan. 29, 2021, issued an order...

The Massachusetts National Guard was activated to help communities with student transportation as the state contends with a shortage of bus drivers at the start of the school year. An order from Gov. Charlie Baker on Monday provides up to 250 personnel to assist local communities with training starting Tuesday for 90 members in several cities. The decision comes as states across the country deal with shortages of drivers...

Authorities said a man wearing a yellow dress who had just been released from Western State Hospital first stole a school bus and later drove a piece of heavy equipment through the home of his estranged wife. Employees of Osprey Rafting on Saturday said they saw a man wearing a yellow dress drive away in the company’s yellow school bus from an area east of Leavenworth on SR 2 around 7:40 p.m. Chelan County sheriff’s deputies responded and found the bus heading eastbound. Deputies said the driver ran a red light near Monitor and they tried to pull the driver...

'I'm writing this note to you because as you know when school is out, there's really no time to talk, just a quick hug,' the note reads. 'For some time, I've been wanting to talk to you about spending time together... Maybe with some other friends of yours? What do you think?' another sentence says. . . . After reporting the note to school officials, the man was taken off that bus route. Edmond School District also said that the driver is no longer employed by the district.

Five African-American students seen pummeling a 14-year-old white boy on a school bus in a video released last week have been charged with misdemeanor battery. The Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office said the State's Attorney's Office "stated that this incident does not meet criteria for a hate crime." 

Four teenagers have been arrested on suspicion of attacking an elementary school bus in Georgia, which left one child needing hospital treatment. An 18-year-old non-student, along with two middle school students and one high school student, are alleged to have attacked the bus carrying Snapfinger Elementary school students on Hollyhock Terrace in Decatur, DeKalb County, on Monday, November 18. The attack occurred around one mile away from the school, reports WSBTV. It is unclear what exactly occurred on the bus. An 18-year-old non-student, along with two middle school students and one high school student, are alleged to have attacked the...

MILAN – Italian authorities say a bus driver transporting schoolchildren stopped his vehicle on a provincial highway, told the passengers to get off and then doused the interior with gasoline and set it on fire. Italian media reported that the driver, an Italian of Senegalese origin, was immediately apprehended. The motive for the arson attack Thursday morning on the outskirts of Milan was unclear. An official told Sky TG24 that the middle school-age children alerted authorities, aiding a speedy emergency response. Twelve children and two adults were taken the hospital but authorities reported only one injury. Video showed firefighters dousing...

MILAN, March 20 (Reuters) - A bus full of school children was set on fire by its driver in the outskirts of Milan on Wednesday in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Mediterranean, Italian authorities said. All the children managed to escape unhurt before the bus was engulfed in flames. Police said the driver was an Italian of Senegalese origin. “He shouted ‘Stop the deaths at sea, I’ll carry out a massacre’,” spokesman Marco Palmieri quoted the driver as telling police after his arrest. A video posted on Italian news sites showed the driver ramming the bus into...

(CNN)A school bus driver was arrested after she overdosed while driving and crashed into a tree, Newark police said. The driver, Lisa Byrd, was transporting a dozen students from 14th Avenue School in Newark when the vehicle crashed into a tree on Wednesday, officials said in a statement. When first responders arrived, police said they revived the 57-year-old woman with Narcan -- a drug that instantly reverses the effects of overdose from heroin and other opioids. The students, ages 5 to 13, were not injured, police said. Byrd, who was taken to a local hospital, is facing 12 charges of...

Paramus, N.J. (CBS) – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed a bill into law Saturday that requires new school buses to have lap and shoulder seat belts. The legislation is in response to a deadly school bus crash in Mount Olive, Morris County. The bus was headed to a field trip back in May when it collided with a dump truck.

What to Know The school bus driver in the deadly May 17 crash in NJ had 14 license suspensions on his record, the state said He also had multiple moving violations, including careless driving in 2009 and an improper turn in 2010 Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash, which killed a student and a teacher The 77-year-old school bus driver from the deadly May 17 highway crash in New Jersey had a lengthy history of license suspensions and moving violations, a spokeswoman for the Motor Vehicle Commission told News 4.Investigators are still probing the cause of...

A 7-year-old boy from Memphis allegedly suffered a concussion after he was dragged off a school bus by his feet in an incident captured on video. The boy, a student at Robert R. Church Elementary School, was forcibly removed from school bus by an unidentified male employee on April 12, FOX13 reported. Shortly before the video was recorded, the employee was allegedly breaking up a fight.

Former CIA case officer Sabrina De Sousa thanked the Trump administration for intervening to save her from extradition to Italy and imprisonment in a statement on Friday. “I want to extend my deepest appreciation to the Trump administration for all their efforts on my behalf. Without their support I would be spending tonight in an Italian prison,” said De Sousa, in a statement quoted by Fox News. “The Obama administration and former CIA Director John Brennan abandoned De Sousa the last seven years, and in six weeks, the Trump team made her freedom possible,” Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) told Fox...

FULL TITLE: Chattanooga school bus driver was involved in another collision just two months ago - and only got his license to drive the vehicle in April The school bus driver charged after a crash that killed five children was involved in another collision just two months ago – and only got his license to drive a school bus in April. Johnthony Walker, 24, was arrested and charged after with five counts of vehicular homicide after the collision in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Monday. Five Woodmore Elementary students - three fourth-graders, a first-grader and a boy in kindergarten – died in...