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  • Metro bus driver shot in downtown Seattle

    08/12/2013 9:37:18 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 32 replies
    Seattle P. I. ^ | 8/12/13
    The King County Sheriff's Office confirmed Monday morning that a shooting occurred on a Metro bus in downtown Seattle. The suspect, who was shot by officers, is now in custody. The Seattle Police Department tweeted that the shooter fired at a Metro driver....
  • Obama’s Magical Misery Tour: Rising Insurance Premiums, Part-time Jobs And Declining Income

    08/12/2013 3:50:51 PM PDT · by whitedog57 · 7 replies
    Confounded Interest ^ | 08/12/2013 | Anthony B. Sanders
    President Obama will be taking his economic message to the people in his luxury bus. Better known as “The Magical Misery Tour.” obammabus The President will be trying to pressure Congress to adopt his proposals for boosting middle-class jobs. 1) Reducing the corporate tax rate that businesses pay in exchange for using some government money for infrastructure projects. 2) Pass a bill funding the government for the next fiscal year and a White House request to raise the Federal debt limit. So President Obama is clinging to the Keynesian notion of the government trying to spend the way to propserity...
  • GRAPHIC: Video shows brutal beating of teen on bus [Driver Doesn't Intervene]

    08/05/2013 9:46:40 AM PDT · by SoFloFreeper · 35 replies
    wdam.com ^ | Matt Quillen
    A school bus driver can be heard on surveillance footage pleading for help from a dispatcher as he witnessed a 13-year-old viciously attacked by three older teens. "You've got to get somebody here –quick, quick, quick," John Moody said. "They are about to beat this boy to death." The victim came away from the July 9 beating with two black eyes and a fractured hand, according to WFLA. Authorities charged the three suspects, all 15-year-old boys, with aggravated battery and one of them with unarmed robbery.
  • Ultra-Orthodox protesters shatter bus windows after female passenger refuses to sit in back

    08/01/2013 11:44:00 AM PDT · by LonelyCon · 26 replies
    Haaretz ^ | July 31, 2013 | Nir Hasson
    Two buses were stoned by a group of Haredim in Beit Shemesh on Wednesday after the police arrested a man and woman who had asked a female passenger to move to the back of the bus. The incident began on a No. 497 bus from Beit Shemesh to Bnei Brak, which is run as a mehadrin line on which men and women sit separately. Under a ruling by the High Court of Justice in 2011, such seating is strictly voluntary. According to passengers on the bus, one of the female passengers asked a woman who was sitting at the front...
  • Al-Qaeda Linked Group Claims Responsibility for Burgas Terror (Not Iran?)

    07/23/2012 1:33:42 PM PDT · by Colonel Kangaroo · 10 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | :7/21/2012 | Maayana Miskin
    The Muslim terrorist group Qa’adat el-Jihad claimed responsibility Saturday for a terrorist bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria. The bombing in Bulgaria last week killed five Israelis, one a pregnant woman. The Lebanese paper El-Nashra reported that the group, which has ties to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility in an email to the Arab press.
  • ON CAMERA: Thief grabs woman’s cell phone, gets hit by bus

    05/26/2013 7:23:02 AM PDT · by ConservativeStatement · 26 replies
    Fox New York and ITN ^ | May 20, 2013
    A Colombian man attempting to snatch a woman's cell phone got a heavy dose of instant karma, and it was all caught on camera. According to ITN, the man walked by the woman, attempted to grab her purse and her cell phone and then fled out a bus terminal door…into the path of an oncoming bus.
  • Bad karma: Wild video shows mugger immediately hit by bus

    05/25/2013 11:54:40 AM PDT · by DFG · 31 replies
    SFGATE ^ | 05/24/13 | Jeff Elder
    In a stunning illustration of karma — or perhaps crime and punishment — this video shows a mugger in Colombia wrestling away a woman’s mobile phone and immediately being hit by a bus. But the story doesn’t end there. The woman — robbed by the suspect just moments before — actually gets down and helps her attacker out from under the bus. And in what seems like a miracle, the mugger was only slightly injured, the UK’s Telegraph reports. The Telegraph says the mugger and accomplices had pulled similar crimes, but perhaps this incident will change his ways. Hit by...
  • Iran agent monitoring Chabad arrested in Bulgaria

    04/22/2013 4:02:38 PM PDT · by Cindy · 3 replies
    JPOST.com - THE JERUSALEM POST ^ | April 22, 2013 01:01 | by Benjamin Weinthal
    SNIPPET: "BERLIN – Bulgarian police officers last summer arrested a Canadian citizen linked to the Iranian government who engaged in surveillance of the local Chabad center in the capital of Sofia, a well-placed and reliable local source told The Jerusalem Post last week, on condition of anonymity due to security reasons. An Iranian-sponsored female agent in her 50s, holding a Canadian passport, traveled from Istanbul to Sofia several weeks after the bombing of the Israeli tour bus in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas in July 2012. She was arrested on her first day in Sofia after the Bulgarian...
  • Man hijacks Transit bus, leads police on 30-mile chase.

    04/20/2013 6:39:52 PM PDT · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 7 replies
    The Austin-American Statesman ^ | 20 April 2013 | Sam Womack
    An armed man hijacked a Capital Metro transit bus Saturday afternoon and led police on a 30-mile chase from Austin to Bastrop before pulling the bus over and killing himself, police say. The man had boarded the bus about 4:30 p.m. in the 8000 block of Thaxton Road in Southeast Austin. He forced the driver and all of the passengers off the bus at gunpoint before taking the wheel of the bus and heading east. At some point, police spotted the bus and began to pursue it. They headed east on Highway 71 as police several times tried to get...
  • Video shows school bus driver pushing girl off bus

    03/21/2013 9:32:54 AM PDT · by Morgana · 23 replies
    ABC ^ | AP
    <p>TAMPA, Fla. -- Prosecutors in Florida have released video showing a driver pushing a special-needs child off a school bus with her foot.</p>
  • 'The Punisher' takes vengeance on Russia's bad drivers

    03/10/2013 10:33:48 AM PDT · by LibWhacker · 19 replies
    NBC News ^ | 3/10/13 | Baruch Ben-Chorin
    Dubbed "The Punisher," Alexei Volkov takes a zero-tolerance approach to being cut off while driving his bus on Russia's roads. Day or night, rain, snow or shine, whenever an errant driver gets in his way, Volkov rams his bus into the offending vehicle without apology -- and records it all on his dashboard camera. The bus driver then documents the collisions by posting the video footage on YouTube.
  • Bus drivers fired for illegal street racing with students on board

    03/05/2013 4:43:18 PM PST · by nascarnation · 12 replies
    Autoblog ^ | 3/5/2013 | J. Korzeniewski
    Sadly, at least two bus drivers in Iowa had to learn the hard way that street racing school buses with elementary school children on board "is never a good idea," losing their jobs in the process. According to reports, one driver decided to pass the one in front on a snowy day in February while schlepping the kids back from a Valentine's Day activity. The kids cheered, for a little while at least, until they realized that the other driver wasn't slowing down to let their bus overtake. According to school officials, the bus driver who attempted the errant pass...
  • High-Priced Bus Drivers In Lansing

    03/04/2013 7:12:20 AM PST · by MichCapCon · 12 replies
    Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 2/28/2013 | Tom Gantert
    The Lansing bus authority had 69 drivers who made $60,000 or more in 2012, including one who earned $104,411. The Capital Area Transportation Authority had 236 bus drivers in 2012, many of which were part time. Salaries ranged from under $1,000, to 34 bus drivers who made more than $70,000, according to information obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request. The salaries include overtime. In recent years, customer bus fares have covered only about 15 percent of the system's total operating costs. “CATA has the lowest cost per passenger ($2.37) of any transit system in the state of Michigan....
  • Alabama standoff 2013: Details emerge about man at center of hostage drama

    02/03/2013 7:23:52 PM PST · by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin · 37 replies
    15.com ^ | 3 February 2013
    MIDLAND CITY, AL - As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an isolated man estranged from his family. Authorities say Jim Lee Dykes, 65 -- a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War known as Jimmy to neighbors -- gunned down a school bus driver and abducted a 5-year-old boy from the bus, taking him to an underground bunker on his rural property. The driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland Jr., was buried Sunday. Dykes, described as a loner who...
  • Former New Orleans mayor Nagin charged with bribery, fraud (get on the prison bus!)

    01/18/2013 5:53:58 PM PST · by Kolath · 15 replies
    AP ^ | 1/18/2012 | AP
    Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on charges that he used his office for personal gain, accepting payoffs, free trips and gratuities from contractors while the city was struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The charges against Nagin are the outgrowth of a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen and a prison sentence for a former city vendor.
  • North Kansas City schools to equip a few buses for Wi-Fi access

    01/11/2013 6:21:20 AM PST · by mykroar · 20 replies
    KC Star Online ^ | 12/25/2012 | Mary Sanchez
    Stepping aboard a school bus will soon be the same as taking a seat in class for some students in the North Kansas City schools. In January, the district will begin wiring four school buses that are used for longer trips with Wi-Fi access. It’s believed to be the first such effort locally. The innovative move is just one more example of how local districts are adapting to keep up with technology and use it for the benefit of students. “We are living in a digital age,” said Eric Sipes, information technology executive director for the district. “We are at...
  • Alabama Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges

    12/11/2012 6:39:50 PM PST · by Cindy · 10 replies
    NOTE The following text is a quote: Alabama Men Arrested on Terrorism Charges U.S. Attorney’s Office December 11, 2012 Southern District of Alabama MOBILE, AL—U.S. Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama and Stephen E. Richardson, Special Agent in Charge of the Mobile Division of the FBI, announced that Mohammad Abdul Rahman Abukhdair, 25, and Randy Wilson, also known as Rasheed Wilson, 25, both U.S. citizens living in Mobile, were arrested today on terrorism charges filed in the Southern District of Alabama. A criminal complaint signed on December 10, 2012, charges Abukhdair and Wilson with conspiring to...
  • The season for imagining inclusive prosperity

    12/10/2012 9:04:08 AM PST · by ExxonPatrolUs · 3 replies
    Faith, Economy, Ecology ^ | Dec 10, 2012 | The Nuns on a Bus
    The Christmas season’s consumer spending and gift-giving frenzy all evolved from the story of Jesus’ birth, which, according to St. Luke, began with Mary and Joseph traveling to Bethlehem to register so they could pay their taxes: “[T]here went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed .“(Luke 2:1) A financial transaction tax is one way that lawmakers could solve the dilemma of how to raise revenues to serve the common good, perhaps following the example of another cast of characters at the nativity scene: the three wise men. Obviously our world is significantly larger than the...
  • Bus hits Miami airport overpass; 1 dead

    12/01/2012 7:18:01 AM PST · by Doogle · 13 replies
    AP via FOX ^ | 12/01/12 | AP via FOX
  • German Islamists Target Youth on the Internet

    11/02/2012 2:38:29 PM PDT · by Cindy · 27 replies
    SPIEGEL.de - SPIEGEL Online ^ | November 1, 2012 | by Christoph Sydow
      "German Islamists Target Youth on the Internet" By Christoph Sydow 11/01/2012 "Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan." PHOTO CAPTION: "A growing community of German-speaking Islamists has developed on the Internet. Aiming to find new recruits, they glorify jihad and call for attacks on Germany. A new study warns that such online propaganda might foster a new generation of terrorists." SNIPPET: "International terrorist groups like al-Qaida recognized the importance of the Internet for recruiting new supporters early on." SNIPPET: "Intelligence services can also take advantage of the anonymity of Internet forums to deliberately plant false information or obtain insider...