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A Rogers husband and wife who worked as a pastor and school bus driver were sentenced Monday to four years in prison for cooking methamphetamine in their family home. Joseph and Barbara Sisneros pleaded guilty last week to a reduced charge of possession of drug paraphernalia with intent to manufacture as part of a plea agreement between Deputy Prosecutor Drew Ledbetter and defense attorneys Blake Warren and Bobby Digby. "This meth lab was not a small operation," Ledbetter told Benton County Senior Circuit Judge Tom Keith. "Certain people should be held to a higher standard. At best, the court could...

The anecdote was widely reported and commented on in recent days, leading the Issaquah district to release a statement today saying it was not the only incident the driver had been involved in. The statement said: "This incident has to do with the responsibility of an employee who is supervising students to act professionally and serve as a role model for appropriate behavior," Superintendent Janet Barry said. After leaving the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the bus driver waited with a busload of middle school students on an onramp closed for the Presidential motorcade. The bus driver made an obscene...

DOVER, Tenn. - With black bows attached to the front of every school bus, all Stewart County drivers ran their usual routes Thursday morning, one day after a beloved co-worker was shot and killed while picking up students. The drivers completed their routes without incident, said transportation director Francis Carson, but some were worried about getting back behind the wheel. "I have small children, and they have been asking: 'Do you have to do this?' " substitute bus driver Michele Etherton said. The black bows had the number "22" on them, a reminder of the bus Joyce Gregory drove for...

Prom nights send most parents scurrying for corsages, dresses and hair appointments. Jacqueline Allerton, police say, is not most parents. The Montgomery County woman's idea of post-dance magic was renting a motel room and stocking it with alcohol for her 14-year-old daughter and her schoolmates, authorities said yesterday. Allerton, 40, of Horsham, now faces criminal charges for allegedly playing host to a drinking party last month at the Warrington Motor Lodge in Bucks County. The overnight party followed an eighth-grade dance May 17 at Keith Valley Middle School in Horsham. The school is part of the Hatboro-Horsham School District, where...