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LAWSUIT: Volunteer Coach Among 21 Hurt In PA Football Bus Crash Sues Driver, Transit Company LAWSUIT: Volunteer Coach Among 21 Hurt In PA Football Bus Crash Sues Driver, Transit Company
Lawsuit: Volunteer Coach Among 21 Hurt In PA Football Bus Crash Sues Driver, Transit Company Twenty-one people were injured — including at least one student who suffered life-altering injuries — when a school bus carrying the Aliquippa Junior High football team crashed in Economy Borough, (Beaver County), Pennsylvania, on Saturday, Aug. 23, authorities said. Now, volunteer coach Jonathan Morris, who was hospitalized for three days with serious injuries, has filed a lawsuit against the bus driver and ABC Transit, Inc., the company that operated the bus. Morris, of Aliquippa, was seated directly behind the driver when the bus fishtailed on Shaffer Road, flipped onto its side, and str…
Charles County Man Who Pointed Gun At School Bus Full Of Kids Avoids More Jail Time Charles County Man Who Pointed Gun At School Bus Full Of Kids Avoids More Jail Time
Charles County Man Who Pointed Gun At School Bus Full Of Kids Avoids More Jail Time A Maryland man who pointed a gun at a bus full of middle schoolers will avoid any additional jail time after a judge gave him credit for time served. Richard William Ellis, 48, of Newburg, was sentenced to five years in prison with all but 142 days suspended after pleading guilty to 19 counts of second-degree assault, the Charles County State’s Attorney’s Office announced Friday, May 16. Ellis had already spent 142 days behind bars since his arrest in December 2024. He will now serve five years of supervised probation and was ordered to remove all firearms from his home. The charges stem f…
PA Baseball Coach Jumps Into Action As Bus Driver Suffers Seizure En Route To Game PA Baseball Coach Jumps Into Action As Bus Driver Suffers Seizure En Route To Game
PA Baseball Coach Jumps Into Action As Bus Driver Suffers Seizure En Route To Game A group of fast-acting Chambersburg coaches are being hailed as heroes for helping a bus driver having a seizure on the way to a game, in turn saving the players on the bus. "It really all happened so fast," Scott Folmar tells Daily Voice of the incident Tuesday, May 3 on Route 322. "Myself and the other two softball coaches on the bus really just reacted. There was no thinking and all worked together to make the situation turn out the way it did." Which was best case scenario given the terrifying circumstances. The Trojans were about 20 minutes from State College with nearly 40 players on…
Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests
Indictment: Sex Offender, Felons Drove Unsafe Buses For NJ Company Without Checks, Drug Tests A Paterson-based school bus company owner from Wayne and his manager hired criminals as drivers – including a registered sex offender – and covered it up, a state grand jury indictment charges. Shelim Khalique, the 52-year-old owner/operator of A-1 Elegant Tours on Paterson Street, and manager Henry Rhodes, 57, of Paterson, hired drivers without background checks or mandatory drug tests while operating unsafe buses, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Personnel files seized in 2019 revealed that A-1 – which has serviced Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union counties -- employed several…
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd
Rockaway Company's Bus In Fatal PA Crash Had No Passenger Seatbelts, Victims ID'd The tour bus owned by Rockaway-based Z & D Tours in an early-morning crash that killed five people had no passenger seatbelts, federal officials said Monday. The bus' driver, Shuang Qing Feng, lost control and hitting a concrete median along the Pennsylvania Turnpike around 3:40 a.m. Sunday, National Transportation Safety Board official Jennifer Homendy said. The bus shot up an embankment, flipped on its side and then back into the barrier, at which point a FedEx truck slammed into the bus's undercarriage, she said. Feng, of Queens, N.Y., Eileen Zelis Aria, 35, of The Br…