Friday, March 7, 2008

3-7-08

School Bus Crash Injures SC Students
The Associated Press -
RIDGEVILLE, SC (AP) — Authorities say a bus carrying 32 kindergarten students has collided with a sport utility vehicle that crossed the center line. ...
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Where’s the press? McCain campaign leaves reporters on the bus
Reuters - USA
Directly after a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters in downtown Washington, DC, reporters dashed outside to their bus to move ...
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4 minor injuries in school bus crash near Quilcene
Seattle Times - United States
The State Patrol says four students suffered minor injuries in a school bus collision near Quilcene. A car collided with the bus Thursday morning as it was ...
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Bus wars!
Boston Globe - United States
Fung Wah used to be The Way for low-cost bus service to New York (never mind the mechanical problems, loose wheels, crashes, and that unpleasantness with ...
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Children escape injury in bus crash
The Press Association -
Eighteen schoolchildren escaped injury after a car crashed head-on into a bus. The accident happened during the morning run on Thursday with pupils on their ...
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Volvo to move bus manufacturing from Tampere to Poland: 300 jobs to go
Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland
Volvo announced on Wednesday that the company would be shutting down its bus body plant in Tampere, with the loss of around 300 jobs. ...
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Seniors hurt in bus collision
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
Police charge truck driver with careless driving after tractor-trailer rear-ends bus on Hwy. 401 A handful of seniors were rushed to hospital yesterday ...
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Bus drivers accept new U-46 contract
Chicago Tribune - United States
ELGIN - After twice rejecting contract proposals, school bus drivers and other transportation employees in Elgin-based U-46 school district voted to accept ...
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Siege survivors head for home
China Daily - China
The hostage taker, a worker in Xi'an, released nine of the hostages after boarding the bus at about 10am on Wednesday. He kept a 48-year-old Australian ...
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DATS bus driver charged with sex assault
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
By Sun Media A man who drives a bus for the disabled has been charged with two counts of sexual assault. Police allege that on two occasions – one in late ...
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RACISM CUTS BOTH WAYS
By News Team
Joseph, as shown on CCTV footage, got up and walked towards Richard from the back of the bus. Richard stood up and, as recalled by Kerry for a Guardian newspaper article, within moments the two men were fighting. ...
The British National Party News... - http://www.bnp.org.uk

I-95 Auto Accident Involving Car, Bus
By Eddie Farah
There was no match between a tour bus with 60 people on board and a car. The two tangled on Interstate 95 this afternoon. The bus won.
Personal Injury Legal News -... - http://www.injuryboard.com/

News: Bucknell Patriot League Basketball Tournament Fan Bus ...
... teams will be playing in the Patriot League Tournament this weekend, and Bison fans will have the opportunity to see both teams in action with the Bison Club and Bertoni's Pizza sponsoring fan bus trips to both Army and Colgate.
CSTV - Basketball - http://www.cstv.com

Update: Bus That Burst into Flames was Recently Inspected
By vafirenews
The day after a tour bus caught fire on Interstate 295 in Prince George, CBS 6 Tracy Sears is allowed on the burned out shell. The seats are completely melted, half of the roof is missing and personal belongings and souvenirs are ...
VAFireNews.com News Feed - http://vafirenews.wordpress.com

Make a date with the marathon love bus
By Mark Ogier
ISLAND COACHWAYS is bringing new meaning to the term speed dating later this month. (more…)
This Is Guernsey » News - http://www.thisisguernsey.com

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Two Antioch teens robbed of their iPods
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Matthias Gafni ANTIOCH - In two unrelated incidents Wednesday, two Antioch teens were targeted for their iPods as they waited at bus stops, police said. ...
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Bus crash policies vary by district
SalemNews.net - Salem,OH,USA
Though the Ohio Department of Education requires all school bus traffic incidents be reported, specifics on how collisions are handled vary by school ...
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The Lede on current ricin incident(s)
By Jon
Markov, probably with the tip of an umbrella, as he stood at a London bus stop in 1978. He fell ill within hours and died a few days later, his doctors baffled by his illness and slow to believe his suspicions that he had been ...
popular logistics - http://popularlogistics.com/

Gun Control Claims More Victims
By patricksperry
Consider that in all such incidents, the shooters are not so deranged as to attack police stations, shooting ranges, or gun shows. They have enough presence of mind to assail unarmed people in gun-free zones because they will encounter ...
Conservative Libertarian Outpost - http://patricksperry.wordpress.com

Gunnison Colorado - Student Commits Suicide Using Cyanide - Hazmat ...
By Homeland Security NTARC News
Every law enforcement and emergency services agency in Gunnison was called into action Tuesday night, as two separate incidents had officials scrambling and residents wondering what all of the commotion was about ...
Homeland Security National Terror... - http://www.nationalterroralert.com

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No taxi took us to the hospital'
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Previously, when BEST buses had been compared with the “killer” Blue Line buses of New Delhi, BEST general manager Uttam Khobragade had said, “It is unfair ...
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Group urges more US, Md. funds for transit
Baltimore Sun - United States
The report by the Maryland Public Interest Research Group Foundation said that the Maryland Transit Administration's commuter MARC trains, light rail system ...
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Transit spares air, saves money
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The Bay Area's top seven transit agencies help prevent more than 2 million metric tons of greenhouse gases and save 251 million gallons of oil each year, ...
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Transit plans stall in traffic jam of bureaucracy
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
We have reached the point where few observers seem to take official announcements such as transit funding seriously. Besides, as often as not, ...
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Explosive device at Metrotown disrupts transit
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
BURNABY / Travellers were being rerouted away from Metrotown mall tonight while police detonated a small explosive device found in an isolated area of the ...
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Transit camera zooms in on car thieves
Calgary Herald - Calgary,Canada
Calgary Transit has added a new type of surveillance camera that it hopes will help catch car thieves. The camera can pan, tilt and zoom in on bad guys in ...
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Transit plan falls flat in Barrhaven
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Three straight days of positive reviews for the city's new transit vision came to thudding stop Thursday night at a fourth and final public consultation ...
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TTC Problems? Talk to the transit therapist
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Well, I feel like the transit therapist these days after my three part series about the ups and downs of riding the Toronto Transit Commission. ...
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Transit camera zooms in on car thieves
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
Calgary Transit has installed a new surveillance camera at the Franklin LRT station south parking lot, aimed at deterring car thieves. ...
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Transit advocates call for getting projects 'off the drawing board ...
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Public transit in Maryland saves consumers $93 million in gasoline costs and cuts global warming pollution by 245 tons -- and for those reasons and others ...
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Tax for transit still up in the air
By sfiecke
By Shannon Fiecke, Correspondent. While you may have to pay an additional quarter-cent sales tax while shopping in much of the metro, due to a new law, there’sa good chance you won’t be paying extra in Scott County. ...
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Tax for transit up in the air
By sfiecke
By Shannon Fiecke, Correspondant. While you may have to pay an additional quarter-cent sales tax while shopping in much of the metro,there’sa good chance you won’t be paying extra in Scott County. read more.
Shakopee Valley News - Newspaper... - http://www.shakopeenews.com

Study finds rush hour eased by Rapid, but more money needed for ...
By The Grand Rapids Press
GRAND RAPIDS -- The daily rush hour around the city would be 20 minutes longer if not for mass transit, according to a report by a group pushing the state and federal government for more public transportation funding....
Latest News - The Grand Rapids... - http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/


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