Monday, December 7, 2009

12/07/09

The week ahead in traffic and transit
Washington Post (blog)
Here's a heads up about some of the traffic and transit changes commuters should be prepared for this week. Beltway/Eisenhower Connector reopened Drivers on ...
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Spokane Transit Authority looking at trolleys
Seattle Times
The Spokane Transit Authority is using $360000 in federal and state grant money for a study of a possible trolley or streetcar system in downtown Spokane. ...
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NY1
Transit Officer Faces Rape Charges
NY1
A transit officer is facing rape charges, in connection with an alleged Thanksgiving Day attack on an 18-year-old woman. Shawqi Ahmed, 29, was arrested by ...
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Transit cop charged with raping teen
amNY
A 29-year-old transit cop charged with raping an 18-year-old woman is scheduled to face a judge on Wednesday. Shawqi Ahmed, an officer since January 2006, ...
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Buskers playing transit stations may be forced to pay royalties
Canada.com
The Manitoba transplant arrived in Vancouver in 2000, soon establishing herself as a favourite with localtransit users, who dubbed her the "SkyTrain ...
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Tiff has Transit in a tempest
Grays Harbor Daily World
By Steven Friederich Aberdeen Mayor Bill Simpson and County Commissioner Al Carter are involved in a spat over the future of Grays Harbor Transit's budget. ...
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CDTA looks to expand mass transit in Saratoga County
The Saratogian
By ANDREW J. BERNSTEIN, The Saratogian SARATOGA SPRINGS — The goal of providing masstransit to Saratoga County is to give area residents and workers ...
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Unexpected asbestos remediation adds $150000 to Tri River Transit project
Mesothelioma News
The new Tri River Transit building in Hamlin, West Virginia has run into an unexpected snag. Neither the Phase I nor Phase II environmental studies of the ...
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Union leaders: Transit contract dispute could inspire "direct action"
amNY
“Rather than taking the soft approach, the only thing that will convince the transit authority is direct action,” said John Samuelsen, 42, a track worker ...
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MTA could build PR campaign around savvy Wells
Baltimore Sun
By Michael Dresser michael.dresser@baltsun.com When people think of the Maryland TransitAdministration, fun and excitement aren't exactly the first things ...
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Do you support the Philly Transit Workers Union "No Viagra No ...
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ContactlessNews | GlobalPlatform announces board
Monday, December 7, 2009 in News. GlobalPlatform, the international specification body for smart card infrastructure, has announced its Board of Directors for fiscal year 2009-2010, following annual elections for five of the eleven Board seats. ... ►▼93%GlobalPlatform releases transit white paper · November 17. ►▼55%Pittsburgh schools requiring biometric lunch payment · November 6. ►▼42%Audio from October 27 IAB meeting online now · November 2 ...
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BRANDING NEWS: Poster campiagns hit the road - B2B Marketing News
Charles Endacott, managing director of Posters in Transit said that according to 3M's Measurement of Vehicle Image Effectiveness an estimated 3000 people per hour could see a campaign poster, "that could be up to 30000 impressions per ...
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scaledown » News, December 7, 2009
By Mark Bradley
Curitiba's Bus Rapid Transit system is the source of inspiration for many other cities including the TransMilenio in Bogotá, Colombia; Metrovia in Guayaquil, Ecuador; as well as the Orange Line of Los Angeles. ...
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New campusLink buses debut in Indiana - News - METRO Magazine
campusLink, which began in August, utilizes three light transit vehicles that provide 20 minute service frequency throughout the student residential and commercial areas adjacent to both Ivy Tech and IPFW.
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MassTransitMag.com » Article » Boxer, Oberstar Eye Nearly $70B for ...
Any jobs bill Congress takes up this winter should come with nearly $70 billion for the nation's roads, rails and airports, two key committee leaders said ...
Spokane Transit Authority looking at trolleys - News Story - KXLY ...
SPOKANE -- The Spokane Transit Authority is using $360000 in federal and state grant money for a study of a possible trolley or streetcar system in downtown ...
Procession for slain officers will impact Sound Transit routes ...
Sound Transit expects significant delays on Tacoma Link service and several bus routes during the procession and memorial service for the slain Lakewood ...
NY1 | 24 Hour Local News | Top Stories | Transit Officer Faces ...
Transit Officer Faces Rape Charges | NY1 News is Time Warner Cable's 24-hour newschannel in New York City, delivering breaking news and features about the ...
PDX Transit News
The transit agency has already installed additional warning signs, lights, ... Posted by Portland Transit News at 10:53 AM. Labels: MAX, safet

MTV.com
Weezer Cancel 2009 Tour Dates Following Bus Crash
MTV.com
By Gil Kaufman Weezer canceled the rest of their 2009 tour dates on Sunday, following a tour bus crash in Upstate New York that resulted in serious injuries ...
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Weezer singer hurt in bus crash
CNN
Cuomo's wife, daughter, and a fifth passenger on the bus were uninjured. The bus was traveling from Toronto, Ontario, to Boston, Massachusetts, ...
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8 students hospitalized after car slams into school bus near Joliet
Chicago Sun-Times
Snowy conditions are believed to have caused a crash that left eight high school students hospitalized when a car slammed into the back of a school bus ...
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New York Times
New Buses Bring Silence to the Streets
New York Times
A designline bus, which operates on a spinning turbine that recharges a lithium-ion battery. By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM Any New Yorker who has ridden a city bus ...
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Wake school bus collides with car
abc11.com
RALEIGH (WTVD) -- Police say a Wake County Public Schools bus rear-ended a car on Ridge Road Monday morning. Raleigh police say the driver of the bus was ...
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Lawrence school bus accident
Fox 59
Officers are at the intersection of Sergent and Lantern Roads where a Lawrence Township bus was involved in a property damage accident with a red SUV. ...
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Watauga Democrat
The Hatch: Bus named after school founder
Watauga Democrat
The 24-passenger bus will help the private school serve its mission statement of "Excellence for the whole child." Grizzard said the school was pleased to ...
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Gundlach Thrown Under Bus
Portfolio.com
by Steve Rosenbush In the Kabuki of boardroom drama, the dismissal of a high-profile corporate executive is usually a highly stylized affair in which the ...
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BBC News
Peshawar residents live in fear of bombs
BBC News
Once, on a Friday, I was walking to the bus stop on my own. I heard the noise of a blast and that sound was terrible. I almost fell down and I was scared. ...
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Smithfield teenager in court today for bus assault charge
Daily Press
... Daily Press ISLE OF WIGHT - The 16-year-old Smithfield High School student charged with attacking a ellow student while riding the school bus Sept. ...
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Weezer cancel tour following bus crash / Music News // Drowned In ...
By Luke Slater
Weezer have cancelled the rest of their current North American Raditude tour, after a bus crash yesterday in which frontman Rivers Cuomo was injured. Though Cuomo was not seriously injured, he remains under observation with three ...
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Weezer Singer Hurt When Bus Skids Off Road; December Dates ...
Rockers Weezer have canceled the rest of their December tour dates after frontman Rivers Cuomo cheated death when his tour bus skidded off an icy road on Sunday morning.
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Weezer Frontman Rivers Cuomo Hospitalized After Tour Bus Crash ...
By Luisa Metcalfe
The 40-year-old singer/guitarist complained of rib pain post-accident, says E! News, and Kim also suffered minor injuries. Rivers' wife Kyoko Ito and two-year-old daughter Mia were on the bus when it veered off the road, but they were ...
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Weezer singer hurt when bus skids off road in NY
By Cristian Salazar
News. Written by Cristian Salazar. Monday, 07 December 2009 08:46. FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 21, 2009 file photo, Rivers Cuomo GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — The lead singer of the alternative rock band Weezer suffered minor injuries when the ...
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Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Suffers Cracked Ribs in Bus Accident
By AceShowbiz.com
Weezer's Rivers Cuomo Suffers Cracked Ribs in Bus Accident.
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Weezer frontman injured after bus crash - MSN Music News
GLEN, N.Y. (AP) -- The lead singer of the alternative rock band Weezer suffered minor injuries when the group's tour bus hit some ice, skidded across the ...
Weezer : Karl's Corner / News : 12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS
12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS. Today at 7:18 AM EST, about 40 miles West of Albany on I-90, the weezer tour bus carrying Rivers and his family and assistants ...
12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS - Weezer's MySpace Blog | - Mixx
Read 12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS by Weezer on MySpace Blogs! New blogTopics added every minute. Today at 718 AM EST, about 40 miles West of Albany...
12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS - Rivers Cuomo, Indie Music
12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS - Posted by Karlophone on 12/6/2009 | Comments (46) 12/06/09 TOUR BUS CRASH NEWS Today at 7:18 AM EST, about 40 miles West of ...
1 dead, scores injured in Wyoming bus crash - U.S. news- msnbc.com
A bus driver was killed and about 40 passengers injured Saturday morning when the bus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer blocking Interstate 25 in ...
3 commit suicide, 2 land in hospital
Express Buzz
The day was marked by stary incidents of violence, arson, torching of vehicles and suicides in the region. In Karimnagar district, Krishna, a second-year ...
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Politicians tearing away the social fabric of state
Times of India
Voicing similar opinion, senior deputy mayor Praveen Bansal said that it is very unfortunate that such type of incidents are taking place in the state. ...
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VIEW: Minarets, Muslim brothers and Swiss banks —Marvi Sirmed
Daily Times
After some incidents of suicide bombings, flogging of a young girl in Swat and desecration of the grave of Saint Pir Baba in Swat, public opinion changed ...
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Time to fight violent crime
Sunshine Coast Daily
What is the world coming to if we are prepared to turn a blind eye to an incident like this? Twoincidents last week added to my anguish and reminded me of ...
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Phayul
The new relationship(s)
Phayul
For many in the older generations, this and similar incidents underline an issue with which they are already familiar. Yet for a refugee community that is ...
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Fundamental rights in the new constitution
Republica
Such incidents are happening practically every day. Even when these lines are being written, reports of a school bus being vandalized, massive extortion of ...
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Vic PD Chief faces complaint over Olympic spying
The Media Co-op (blog)
In October 2009, Dean documented two other incidents that he says show police violated his rights. Two days before the Olympic Torch Relay began, ...
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SP-EYE: What If Gus Didn't Get On The Bus?
By SP-EYE
What If Gus Didn't Get On The Bus? We're hearing reports about an incident at Horizon Elementary last week... Allegedly...a heads-up teacher was looking for a child that was supposed to be in class. Horizon staff put in a call to ...
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Anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya ...
By ganesh
A tight security cover in the city and elsewhere in the district, especially at mosques and temples, was in place to prevent untoward incidents. A bus was, however, attacked at Pappanaickenpalayam in the city. The bus was heading for ...
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MindthBlog
By TFL-Alerts
No line incidents have been reported. ACTON TOWN STATION: No step free access to the platforms due to planned maintenance work. ALDGATE EAST STATION: The ticket office is closed from Sunday 1 November until Sunday 13 December, inclusive. ... CHARING CROSS ROAD BUS LANE: From 0001 Saturday 10 January 2009 until further notice, Routes 24 29 N29 and N279 will be diverted between Bloomsbury Street and Charing Cross Road via St Giles High Street (serving a new Stop S for ...
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Confirmation Bias « Writing from the Edge 2
By karenhancock
When I expressed my skepticism the person offered several incidents of the personal testimony sort as “proof” the product was legitimate and worked as advertised. As soon as I read about confirmation bias, I realized I'd just seen it in ... He found confirmation on the side of a boxcar in a train he happened to pass as he started out on his bus trip to Minnesota. There on the side of the car was a number that just happened to be the same as the street number of the Billy ...
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Top 10 Tips For Reducing SuperStress - Number One Make Money ...
By BlogTactic
You dodge the bus but then are late for work; your report is due but you get a call from your child's day care and have to leave work early to pick her up -- you stay up late that night to finish the report and start again the next day with less sleep ... So how can we keep the many, many stresses in our lives from accumulating and becoming super-sized instead of acute and manageable incidents? Here are 10 important strategies for reducing the impact of inevitable stress: ...
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Man approaches Caney Creek student near bus stop > Woodlands ...
“I don't think now, all of a sudden, we have a bunch of new incidents. ... home after exiting the schoolbus, taken to a remote area and sexually assaulted. ...
Letter from the Principal Scott Murphy
In response to bus incidents, students can be removed from the bus and parents can be held responsible for transportation to/from school. ...
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school bus incidents in u s right way to write incidents report drinking water contamination incidentsevidence and similar and incidents ...
DTC bus reported CNG leak 2 days before fire
In the past week four similar incidents of CNG vehicles catching fire have been reported in the city. In the incidents, two Blueline buses went up in flames ...
ivers Cuomo Hospitalized After Bus Accident
BeatCrave.com
Cuomos' wife, daughter, and another passenger were also on the bus but were not hurt. It seems like a lot of tour bus accidents have been happening lately ...
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KFBB NewsChannel 5
Bus Accident Kills One, Injures Forty
KFBB NewsChannel 5
The driver, who had been with the company for three years, was killed in the accident. Forty-two of the bus's 47 passengers were taken to the hospital. ...
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Weezers Rivers Cuomo Injured in Bus Accident, Sweater Possibly ...
By admin
No! A nice, friendly rock star named Rivers Cuomo who leads up awesome rock band Weezer got into abus accident earlier this morning in Upstate New York. Rivers and his family were in a bus going from one gig to.
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Picking Up Strangers: REMEMBER THE CAMERAS!!!
By Jeanne Ree
There have been 4 recent pedestrian/bus accidents. One was a fatality. People like this are part of the reason why. I didn't see her. I was in one of the newer buses that has two large blind spots to our left. When I did see her, ...
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Bus crashes drop despite headlines | cincinnati.com | Cincinnati.Com
In 2004, the district implemented stringent standards for reporting accidents - even a minor one, such as a bus backing into a mailbox, for instance. "We used to never report those as accidents," Jones said. The district would simply ...
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21 killed, 50 hurt in bus collision in Bangladesh | Home >> Other ...
The agency said at least 50 people were hurt. Officials could not be reached immediately to confirm the new figure. The Bangladesh Road Transport Authority says vehicle accidents, mainly blamed on poor roads and erratic driving, ...
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ohnotheydidnt: Nooooo!
By JENNNNNNY
Glen, New York (CNN) -- The lead singer of the rock band Weezer was involved in a bus accidentSunday that left him and another passenger in an upstate New York hospital. Rivers Cuomo, 40, complained of rib pain and was transferred, ...
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Bus driver from Denver killed
Casper Star-Tribune Online
Around 1:30 am a semi truck and trailer carrying packaged pork slid and rolled on it side around mile marker 176 North bound on I-25, minutes later, a bus ...
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BBC News
Pay up or die: Guatemala City bus drivers targeted
BBC News
He was told he could drive again in a modified bus, but he says it's far too dangerous and expensive. He hopes one day to buy a modified taxi so he can ...
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Sarah Palin speech: The view's better from inside the bus than under it
Los Angeles Times
The lines began forming Saturday morning outside the Sioux Falls Barnes & Noble bookstore, fully 35 hours before former Alaska Gov. ...
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21 killed, 50 hurt in bus collision in Bangladesh
The Associated Press
DHAKA, Bangladesh — Two passenger buses collided head-on in southwestern Bangladesh on Sunday, leaving 21 people dead and 50 injured. ...
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Major corridors ripe for bus-service expansion
Washington Post
... network of smaller of smaller buses serving neighborhoods. Fourteen corridors with existing busservice were identified as candidates for such enhancements:
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AFP
Twelve dead in Syria bus crash
AFP
DAMASCUS — Twelve people were killed and seven injured in a collision in thick fog on Sunday between a bus and a truck headed for Iraq in northeast Syria, ...
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Mother shaken after bus crash
MassLive.com
By LORI STABILE BRIMFIELD - A day after a tractor trailer hauling a crane crashed into a school busthat was stopped to pick up her 6-year-old son, ...
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Readington school bus depos is bad idea for several reasons
Hunterdon County Democrat - NJ.com
By Hunterdon County Democrat The Board of Education is proposing to build a bus depot and busparking lot adjacent to the Holland Brook School. ...
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No major problems as Muni rolls out changes
San Francisco Chronicle
About two dozen people standing in the morning along the now defunct 26-Valencia line didn't realize the bus route had been eliminated - but only half of ...
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MyFox Wausau
Free Bus Rides
MyFox Wausau
Wausau-MyFox Wausau - If you need a lift in the Wausau area this month, you might consider taking the bus. Metro Bus Riders can pocket the $1.25 and hop on ...
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Among Other News, Palin Throws Humor Under The Bus « Beach Peanuts
By inkberries
Among Other News, Palin Throws Humor Under The Bus. December 6, 2009 by inkberries. Catching Up On News… My blog posting has been sparse the last couple weeks due to the Thanksgiving holiday and some vacation time, and there's been a ...
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"Fill a Bus" food drive concludes today - The Morning Sun News ...
Today is the final day of a food drive that is being held by the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools bus drivers in the Mt. Pleasant Kroger parking lot. The food drive will run from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. ...
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Looming Bus Rapid Transit Fiasco in the UK? – From the Cambridge ...
By zweisystem
Looming Bus Rapid Transit Fiasco in the UK? – From the Cambridge News: Millions at stake after latest busway wrangle. By zweisystem. The UK government have been very pro BRT and the Cambridge – St. Ives BRT was to have been a showcase ...
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15 killed, 30 hurt in bus collision in Bangladesh | Trans Pacific ...
By The Jakarta Post Breaking News
A government administrator says at least 15 people have been killed and 30 others injured after two passenger buses collided head-on in southwestern Bangladesh.Read More.
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1 dead, scores injured in Wyoming bus crash | Sheridan Wyoming ...
By Shane Bryant
CASPER, Wyo. — A bus driver was killed and about 40 passengers injured Saturday morning when thebus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer blocking Interstate 25 in central.
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1 Dead, 40 Injured in Wyoming Bus Crash - Local News | News ...
1 Dead, 40 Injured in Wyoming Bus Crash, One person is dead and about 40 injured after a passengerbus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer in central ...
1 Dead, Scores Injured In Wyoming Bus Crash - Denver News Story ...
CASPER, Wyo. -- A bus driver was killed and about 40 passengers injured Saturday morning when thebus crashed into an overturned tractor-trailer blocking ...
Driver Investigated After School Bus Crash - Louisville News Story ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Metro Police were called to the scene of a school bus accident Tuesday morning. Tuesday, December 1, 2009.
The Shelbyville News > News > Money Bus stops at Waldron Elementary
“The Kids Count on the Money Bus” is a program created by Networks Financial Institute at Indiana State University that provides a learning tool through a ...
3 Hurt In Crash Involving School Bus - Cincinnati News Story ...
FRANKLIN -- Three people were hurt in a crash involving a school bus in Franklin . Tuesday, December 1, 2009.

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