February 22 2012 - Charlotte man killed in Texas crash
A Charlotte man died after a crash in Texas involving a driver who said she had just been in the hospital. Austin police charged the woman with intoxicated manslaughter in the Monday night accident that killed 61-year-old Dik Van Meerten as he waited for a bus. Witnesses say the driver hit several cars, slammed into the bus stop and kept going, eventually wedging her car between two poles. The ... |
February 21 2012 - San Benito High School chess team comes home state champs
SAN BENITO — A small crowd cheered Monday night as members of the San Benito High School chess team climbed off a bus as the new state champions.The 17-member team won the district’s first Texas Scholastic Chess Championship in Dallas on Sunday... |
February 21 2012 - San Benito High's statewide chess champions welcomed home
SAN BENITO - A small crowd cheered Monday night as members of the San Benito High School chess team climbed off a bus as the new state champions.The 17-member team won the district's first Texas Scholastic Chess Championship in Dallas on Sunday with a victory over Brownsville's Porter... |
February 21 2012 - Cruces School Bus Drivers’ Strike Averted
LAS CRUCES (AP) — Las Cruces school bus drivers say they won't go on strike after a bargaining session with their employer. Texas-based Student Transportation Specialists of New Mexico pledged... Read more » |
February 20 2012 - Driver charged in North Campus auto-pedestrian accident
Linda Diann Woodman, 59, faces charges of intoxicated manslaughter and intoxicated assault after police say she hit two people with her SUV as they waited at a Central Austin bus stop near the University of Texas Sunday evening. The two charges against Woodman carry a combined $55,000 bond. |
February 20 2012 - Driver tells police she took pain pills before fatal auto-ped wreck
Linda Dianne Woodman, 59, faces charges of intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault after police say she hit two people with her SUV as they waited at a bus stop near the University of Texas Sunday evening. Woodman told officers she was admitted to the hospital earlier that day, and given morphine and Percocet. The two charges against Woodman carry a combined $55,000 bond. |
February 20 2012 - Las Cruces school bus drivers to picket
Las Cruces school bus drivers say they plan to picket Monday over wage issues. Officials from Texas-based Student Transportation Specialists of New Mexico will meet with union representatives to discuss a new contract. The... |
February 18 2012 - Man Sentenced in Bus Stop Assault
A young man got six years of probation after he and four others assaulted a Klein ISD student and threatened him at gunpoint in Spring, Texas. |
February 18 2012 - McNeese State-Texas A&M game canceled
A pedestrian was taken to the hospital Friday morning after being hit by a bus ... After more than two decades of declining student enrollment, local Christian ... |
February 18 2012 - Police urge caution following school bus wrecks
The Longview News Journal reports: While the government says school buses are the safest mode of transportation for students, it’s been a dangerous past few months for buses in East Texas. YouTube Video: No YouTube read more |
February 18 2012 - Grand opening held for new Cap Metro park and ride in Manor
MANOR, Texas -- Capital Metro hosted a grand opening for its newest park and ride in Manor Wednesday morning. The new station opened back in January, but its official grand opening was held Wednesday. Cap Metro officials say the need for more transit in Manor has grown. Commuters in eastern Central Texas nearly doubled their use of the Manor to Austin bus route over the past year. The new park ... |
February 18 2012 - Bourgeois leads School of the Americas Watch in El Paso protest
The Rev. Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch and leader of the annual protest in Columbus to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, could face arrest during a 10 a.m. vigil today in El Paso, Texas. |
February 17 2012 - Red Tails Screening Segregated - By Sex
Dallas School Officials Accused Of Stereotyping A decision by Dallas, Texas Public Schools to send 5,700 fifth-grade boys on a bus trip to see the movie "Red Tails," while showing "Akeelah and the Bee" for the girls, has ignited a controversy surrounding stereotypes. The district used $57,000 in federal funding for low-income students to pay for the bus trip for the boys. |
February 17 2012 - Texas Schools Look To Advertising To Fill Budget Gaps
The rooftop of a suburban high school is not a location that companies usually consider prime advertising real estate. But in Humble Independent School District, it may be. The district’s high school is directly in a flight path for Houston’s Bush Intercontinental Airport. |
February 17 2012 - Road-heavy schedule will test Mavs
The UNO baseball team hit the road Thursday for an 18-hour bus ride to Texas A&M-Corpus Christi for a four-game series that starts the program's Division I era. We'll see them again next year. "My wife is going to get to work on... |
February 17 2012 - Seeking Money, Texas Schools Turn to Advertisements
The rooftop of a suburban high school is not a location that companies usually consider prime advertising real estate. But in Humble Independent School District, it may be. The district's high school lies directly in a flight path for Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. |
February 17 2012 - Investors bilked in $7B scheme feel forgotten
Sitting in the back of a courtroom where Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford is being tried for fraud, retired IBM engineer Jim Eccles was eager to see the man accused of bilking thousands of investors in a $7 billion Ponzi scheme. Eccles, who lost his life savings, said he'd spent hours traveling on a bus for one reason. |
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