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Newsby StaffMay 29, 2013

Program makes bus driver certification more efficient

Tennessee launches the THP Pupil Transportation Certification application, which replaces a paper-based manual process. Officials expect the program’s mobile and web-based components to provide substantial savings in time and expense and a significant reduction in errors due to manual entry.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonMay 28, 2013

Teen still missing after taking ride from stranger

Kathlynn Shepard, 15, and a 12-year-old girl were lured into a man's truck shortly after exiting their school bus last week in Dayton, Iowa. The 12-year-old was able to escape, and the suspect was found dead, but Shepard is still missing.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonApril 24, 2013

Police seek man who followed girl around bus stop

Authorities in Redlands, Calif., ask for the public's help to identify a man who followed an 11-year-old girl on her way to and from a school bus stop last week. During the second incident, the man began asking the girl questions about her school and her clothing.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonApril 23, 2013

47-year school bus driver honored in New York

Pat Beesmer, a driver for Ethan Allen Transportation, is named School Bus Driver of the Year in Ulster County. A mother of three kids who have been passengers on Beesmer's bus says that she is "very tuned in to every child's needs — those who occasionally get bus sick, and those who miss Mom or Dad on their first day of school."

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Newsby Thomas McMahonApril 8, 2013

4 students charged in school bus vandalism

At a Tennessee school, one bus had a broken window, and fire extinguishers had been removed from four buses and discharged inside one of them. A school resource officer develops information that leads to the arrest of three middle school students and one high school student.

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Newsby StaffMarch 28, 2013

Former school bus driver charged with statutory rape

The 49-year-old man is arrested on Wednesday for allegedly having sex with a juvenile. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says that the man, who was a school bus driver at the time, met two youths in October and provided alcohol to them before the alleged act occurred.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonMarch 14, 2013

1 of Chowchilla school bus kidnappers denied parole

A California board again finds James Schoenfeld unsuitable for release from prison, but he will be re-examined in three years. In 1976, Schoenfeld and two others hijacked a school bus and imprisoned the 26 children and their driver in a buried moving van.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonMarch 12, 2013

New state director named in Kansas

Keith Dreiling, a former lieutenant with the Kansas Highway Patrol, joins the Kansas State Department of Education as state director for pupil transportation. He replaces industry veteran Larry Bluthardt, who retired last year.

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Newsby StaffMarch 5, 2013

Police: Snowballs lead to two-bus crash

Students in Sioux City, Iowa, pelt a school bus with snowballs as it leaves a high school, according to police. The school bus stops suddenly, and a transit bus is unable to stop in time and rear-ends the school bus.

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Newsby Thomas McMahonJanuary 30, 2013

School bus driver killed, student taken hostage

An Alabama man identified by neighbors as Jimmy Lee Dykes, 65, allegedly boarded a school bus on Tuesday and demanded two children. When school bus driver Charles Albert Poland Jr. refused, he was fatally shot. The suspect then took a 5-year-old kindergartner and retreated to a bunker on his property, where they remained as of Thursday.

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