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  2. 2013 Alabama bunker hostage crisis - Wikipedia

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    Just after 3:30 p.m., [1] Dykes boarded a Dale County school bus that was stopped in Midland City and told the driver that he wanted to take two children, six and eight years old, both boys, [4] from the bus. The school bus driver, 66-year-old Charles Albert Poland, Jr., refused to let him take the children and challenged Dykes to shoot him. [4]

  3. The yellow school bus – once a symbol of integration – is ...

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    During the 2019-2020 school year, many schools closed after the COVID-19 pandemic hit, leaving school bus drivers without work and adequate pay. Many found other employment by the time schools opened.

  4. James F. Blake - Wikipedia

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    Bus driver defied by Rosa Parks after he ordered her to give up her seat – eventually leading to the Montgomery bus boycott James Frederick Blake (April 14, 1912 – March 21, 2002) was an American bus driver in Montgomery, Alabama , whom Rosa Parks defied in 1955, prompting the Montgomery bus boycott .

  5. Alton, Texas bus crash - Wikipedia

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    A school bus crash occurring on September 21, 1989, in Alton, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley region, resulted in the deaths of 21 junior and senior high school students by drowning or causes related to being asphyxiated. A bottling truck collided with the school bus, causing the bus to enter a caliche pit filled with water. The driver of the ...

  6. 2006 Huntsville bus crash - Wikipedia

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    The suits named Laidlaw Transit, Anthony Scott, the school bus driver and the driver of the Toyota Celica as defendants, and each suit was settled in 2008. [10] Additional lawsuits were filed by families of about two dozen students who were injured and settled after the first four suits.

  7. How safe are school buses? Here's what experts say — and how ...

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    About 20.5 million elementary and secondary school-aged kids in the United States ride school buses to and from school each day. And when something goes wrong — a crash, a reckless driver — it ...

  8. Family offers encouragement, forgiveness to driver in fatal ...

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    "Forgiveness only hurts the person that is unforgiving," she said. "It doesn't hurt the other person and I didn't want to open that door for the enemy to come in and have bitterness -- no, I don't ...

  9. Boston desegregation busing crisis - Wikipedia

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    On the evening of September 7, the night before the first day of school, white youths in Charlestown threw projectiles at police and injured 2 U.S. Marshals, a crowd in South Boston stoned an MBTA bus with a black driver, and the next day, youths in Hyde Park, Roxbury, and Dorchester stoned buses transporting outside students in. [7] Incidents ...