May 23 2012 - Bus hits barrier after vandals release brake
LAWRENCE — Vandals released the brake on a parked school bus and it rolled down a hill and struck a Jersey barrier, damaging the front end, police said. Detective David Levesque went to the Lawrence Housing Authority resident parking lot at 204 Phillips St., about 11 p.m. and found the bus facing front end into a wooded area and through the concrete Jersey barrier. |
May 21 2012 - Residents glad public transit is back
St. Lawrence County residents now have a cheap and easy way to travel from town to town without a personal vehicle. The new bus transportation system has officially opened up to the public. It's been five months since residents have had a public transit system in the area and our Cara Thomas says residents are glad to have it back. |
May 18 2012 - School board favors tweaking middle school boundary line
For years, students in the north-central part of the Lawrence school district have been bused across the city to attend Liberty Memorial Central Middle School. On Monday night, parents asked the school board to change the boundary so their children could attend West Middle School. |
May 18 2012 - Lawrence bus service to start Monday
The signs are up. The schedule is posted. Lawrence's new privately run bus service begins Monday. A group of about two dozen private investors led by Lawrence couple Cliff and Paula Redden have created and funded the Lawrence Transit System, which will serve the Northeastside city of 46,000. |
May 04 2012 - Wiz Khalifa Busted for Marijuana, Again
On Wednesday, police in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, reported that rapper Wiz Khalifa was caught with marijuana following his performance at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum on Monday, May 1st. |
April 25 2012 - Bus driver charged with bogus stolen-car report
LAWRENCE — Wanda Jaquez described her 2002 Lincoln LS in "excellent" working condition with no mechanical problems when she reported it stolen from in front of her home in November 2009. But after state police recovered the car on Interstate 495 South in Chelmsford, fraud investigators concluded the Lincoln wasn't stolen as Jaquez had reported. |
April 22 2012 - Lawrence O’Donnell Guest: Zimmerman Lawyers ‘Hungry For The Limelight,’ Throwing Client ‘Un
On Tuesday night, MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell discussed, with a panel, George Zimmerman 's lawyers dropping him. The reaction to the presser and the lawyers' statements was unanimously incredulous, with the New York Times ' Charles Blow saying the lawyers seem "a little bit hungry for the limelight." They're throwing Zimmerman under the bus, he said. "Fame is a monster," and they've been bitten ... |
April 19 2012 - Truck hit by school bus after running red light
FORT WALTON BEACH - A pickup truck was hit by a school bus after it ran a red light at Racetrack Road and Eglin Parkway on Wednesday afternoon.No one was injured in the crash, according to a news release from the Florida Highway Patrol.Lawrence Bentley, 46, was eastbound on Racetrack when he... |
March 28 2012 - Tyshawn Taylor leads KU back to Final Four
LAWRENCE (AP) — The word filtered out from an email from a Kansas official that the Jayhawks’ bus, at least according to their GPS system, would arrive back in Lawrence at shortly after midnight. |
March 27 2012 - Taylor leading Kansas back to Final Four
LAWRENCE, Kan. -- The word filtered out from an email from a Kansas official that the Jayhawks’ bus, at least according to their GPS system, would arrive back in Lawrence at shortly after midnight. |
March 27 2012 - Tyshawn Taylor leading Kansas back to Final Four
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The word filtered out from an email from a Kansas official that the Jayhawks' bus, at least according to their GPS system, would arrive back in Lawrence at shortly after midnight. |
March 27 2012 - Taylor leading Jayhawks’ charge Final Four
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The word filtered out from an email from a Kansas official that the Jayhawks’ bus, at least according to their GPS system, would arrive back in Lawrence at shortly after midnight. |
March 10 2012 - Wild turkey collides with school bus
LAWRENCE, N.J., March 10 (UPI) -- A wild turkey collided with a school bus Friday morning on a rural road in South Jersey, shattering the windshield, school officials said. |
March 01 2012 - Riders Demand Action To Prevent Port Authority Cuts
Several hundred public transit riders and supporters demonstrated outside the David L. Lawrence Convention Center, protesting Governor Corbett's failure to address the public transit crisis that, the Port Authority says, will lead to higher fares and a 35 percent cut in bus service. |
February 29 2012 - Columbia officials explore city of Lawrence, KU's coordinated bus system
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jayhawk Boulevard is bustling with people in the late afternoon. They grab the student newspaper, clutch their iPhones and gaze east down the long road at the heart of the University of Kansas, hoping to catch a glimpse of their bus. Some of the buses are affixed with small Jayhawks; the others are striped in white and turquoise. Students pour into both as they pass by, making ... |
February 29 2012 - Columbia officials explore Lawrence's coordinated city-KU bus system
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jayhawk Boulevard is bustling with people in the late afternoon. They grab the student newspaper, clutch their iPhones and gaze east down the long road at the heart of the University of Kansas, hoping to catch a glimpse of their bus. Some of the buses are affixed with small Jayhawks; the others are striped in white and turquoise. Students pour into both as they pass by, making ... |
February 25 2012 - Late-night shuttles offer students safe ride home
LAWRENCE, Kan. — When finding a way home from a night at Columbia bars, University of Missouri students have a variety of options, including taxis, sober rides home and shoe leather. Unlike Iowa State University and University of Kansas students, they are not offered a free ride home on a city bus. |
February 25 2012 - City leaders stop in Lawrence to see KU on Wheels
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Columbia city government officials, transit advocates and two University of Missouri students traveled to Lawrence, Kan., Friday for the second of three planned day trips to Midwestern university towns to observe transit systems that are partly funded by student fees. |
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