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A Baltimore bus driver was shot and killed on the job Thursday morning after an argument with a passenger, police say. Marcus Parks was the victim, the Maryland Department of Transportation said in a statement. He was 51 and had worked for the state transit administration for 20 years.   “Mr. Parks was a true frontline hero transporting essential workers…

The wife of a French bus driver savagely beaten after he asked passengers to wear face masks aboard his vehicle has condemned his “barbaric” death.

Who would throw a kitten out of a moving car? That’s the question police in Little Elm are trying to answer.

Fairfax Connector bus drivers who were on strike have reached an agreement with Transdev and are expected to return to work Monday. More than 500 members of the ATU Local 1764 began picketing early Thursday, calling for for better pay, benefits and working conditions. The strike shut down nearly 85 percent of Fairfax Connector service, according to the union. About 30,000…

Thirty-thousand people in Northern Virginia could see a big impact to their daily commute. News4’s Jackie Bensen reports the Metrobus driver strike could extend to the Fairfax Connector.

A man who was hospitalized after a hit-and-run in D.C. has died four days later. Brad Hinds was 39-years-old. News4’s Jackie Bensen spoke to his sister about Hinds’ life.

Thousands of Metrobus riders in Northern Virginia are forced to find other ways to get around as a Metrobus strike continues for nearly two weeks. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

Police in Istanbul say they have detained a driver who rammed his bus into a crowded stop and attacked people who tried to prevent him from escaping with a knife. At least 13 people have been injured. A police statement said the 33-year-old bus driver was detained Sunday after he jumped into the sea to try and get away from...

California officials again rejected parole Tuesday for the last of three men convicted of hijacking a school bus full of children for $5 million ransom more than four decades ago.

A 48-year-old school bus driver is facing charges of reckless endangerment and driving under the influence after a young student in Longview, Washington, called 911 to report that she was intoxicated, NBC News reports. “She was drunk,” the 5th grader told a 911 dispatcher. “She passed three red lights … and there’s still kids on there.” The driver, Catherine Maccarone,...

The Prince George’s County Public School system has 1100 bus drivers, but it isn’t enough. It needs to hire 60 permanent school bus drivers just to cover its existing routes, as well as another 90 substitute drivers. News4’s Tracee Wilkins reports.

The bus carrying dozens of Central Americans from the Texas border arrived in this northern Mexican city late at night and pulled up next to the station. Men and women disembarked with children in their arms or staggering sleepily by their sides, looked around fearfully and wondered what to do. They had thought they were being taken to a shelter...

A bus driver in northern Italy abducted 51 children and their chaperones Wednesday, threatening them over a 40-minute ordeal before setting the vehicle on fire when he was stopped by a Carabinieri blockade. Officers broke glass windows in the back of the bus and got all the passengers to safety without serious injury before the flames destroyed the vehicle, authorities...

We’ve all wanted to tell the driver behind us exactly what we’ve thought of them from time to time — and now you can, thanks to an LED sign called RoadWayve that you place in the back windshield.

An upstate New York judge who stoked social media outrage for sentencing a former school bus driver to probation in the rape of a 14-year-old is getting “numerous vitriolic” phone calls, court officials said Tuesday.

A Virginia school bus attendant is facing charges for allegedly assaulting a child with special needs in his care, and the bus driver is accused of failing to take action.

Police say a Prince William County school bus attendant was seen on surveillance video punching a child with special needs. That attendant and the bus driver, who police say did nothing about it, are facing felony charges. Northern Virginia Bureau Chief Julie Carey reports.

A Prince George’s County school bus was involved in a crash with a truck that left one woman dead and six others hospitalized. News4’s Justin Finch reports.

After a search of a home in North Haverhill, New Hampshire, the attorney general’s office said Wednesday there is no evidence of the body of a woman who went missing more than 15 years ago. Authorities had been at a single-family home not far from where Maura Murray crashed her car back in 2004.

Metro Transit Police in Washington, D.C., are searching for a man who allegedly threw a carton of eggs at a bus operator.