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'Do You Want Me To Choke You Out?' Bus Aide Strangled 6-Year-Old, Montco DA Says 'Do You Want Me To Choke You Out?' Bus Aide Strangled 6-Year-Old, Montco DA Says
'Do You Want Me To Choke You Out?' Bus Aide Strangled 6-Year-Old, Montco DA Says (Editor's note: This story has been updated to include a statement from North Penn School District.) A school bus aide in the North Penn School District is accused of choking a 6-year-old student, said the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.  MacArthur Wilson, a 72-year-old Lansdale resident, is charged with strangulation, attempted simple assault, reckless endangerment, and harassment, according to prosecutors.  Authorities said the bus was in Montgomery Township, about one minute away from the 6-year-old boy's stop when the bus driver told Wilson to sit with him on th…

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by Mac Bullock
Schools
Man Boards School Bus, Touches Girl In Chester County: Officials Man Boards School Bus, Touches Girl In Chester County: Officials
Man Boards School Bus, Touches Girl In Chester County: Officials Police are seeking the public's help in identifying the man who boarded a Coatesville school bus and touched a student early Thursday, Jan. 26. The man got on the bus that had stopped to pick up students around 6:50 a.m. at E. Chestnut and N. 6th streets, sat next to a girl and inappropriately touched her leg, officials said. The Coatesville Area School District Police are investigating.

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Stranger On The School Bus: Man Hitches Ride With Bensalem Teens Stranger On The School Bus: Man Hitches Ride With Bensalem Teens
Stranger On The School Bus: Man Hitches Ride With Bensalem Teens "There's a strange man on this bus," was the terrifying message that Bensalem parents received from their children heading to school on Friday, Nov. 4. The teens reached out to their families after noticing that a grown man wearing a hoodie and a face mask had boarded their bus to Bensalem High School around 6:40 a.m., district officials said. Parents called 911, and police pulled the bus over at at Galloway and Mechanicsville roads, where Elliott Smith Jr., of Philadelphia, was arrested, 6abc reports. Smith, who had a warrant out for his arrest, was Smith is charged with un…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
School Bus Sliced In Half By Taco Bell Sign In Pennsylvania School Bus Sliced In Half By Taco Bell Sign In Pennsylvania
School Bus Sliced In Half By Taco Bell Sign In Pennsylvania A school bus crashed into a Taco Bell sign— slicing it in half— in western Pennsylvania on Wednesday, Oct. 19, authorities say.  The scene of the school bus crash into a Taco Bell sign in Forest Hills. Facebook/Tom Defino The crash happened in the 2300 block of Ardmore Boulevard, Forest Hills around 9:34 a.m., according to emergency dispatchers.  "A pole sliced through the bus, causing a large panel on the door side to break open," WPXI reports.  Posted by WPXI-TV Pittsburgh on Wednesday, October 19, 2022 Witnesses told Daily Voice no children were onboard but the driver was taken t…

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by Jillian Pikora
Schools
Coatesville Student Discharges Pepper Spray On School Bus Coatesville Student Discharges Pepper Spray On School Bus
Coatesville Student Discharges Pepper Spray On School Bus A Coatesville high school student discharged pepper spray on a school bus carrying nearly 50 students Monday, Sept. 12, dispatch tells Daily Voice. No students were sickened in the incident near N Chester Avenue and Coates Street around 2:45 p.m., district officials said. Several students were evaluated but most did not leave the bus, per instruction from EMS. One student complained of mild respiratory irritation, but refused medical treatment. The student's father signed off saying he did not want his son to be treated, officials said.  The bus was ventilated and students …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
12-Year-Old NJ Boy Found Unresponsive On School Bus Dies 12-Year-Old NJ Boy Found Unresponsive On School Bus Dies
12-Year-Old NJ Boy Found Unresponsive On School Bus Dies A 12-year-old boy died days after being found unresponsive on a school bus in Camden County, authorities said. School officials and first responders tried reviving the boy after finding him on a bus in Gloucester Township Jan. 24, a spokesman with the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. He died on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The matter remains under investigation by the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office and the Gloucester Township Police Department

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
Child Struck By Car While Getting On School Bus In PA Child Struck By Car While Getting On School Bus In PA
Child Struck By Car While Getting On School Bus In PA A child was hit by a car while getting on their school bus on Wednesday morning, according to a release by Pennsylvania state police. Emergency crews were called to a report of a pedestrian struck in the 700 block of East Christine Road, West Nottingham Township, Chester County at 6:46 a.m., according to the release by Pennsylvania state police. The victim has been identified as a 15-year-old boy, who entered the roadway prior to his school bus turning on the red lights to signal to other vehicles that it was stopping, police say. The boy was hit by a car in the opposing lane of traffic, a…

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by Jillian Pikora
News
Massive Crash Involving School Bus Halts Traffic At I-79, 422 Interchange Massive Crash Involving School Bus Halts Traffic At I-79, 422 Interchange
Massive Crash Involving School Bus Halts Traffic At I-79, 422 Interchange A serious crash involving a school bus has halted traffic on interstate 79, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. The multi-vehicle crash happened along interstate 79 northbound between Exit 96: PA 488 - PORTERSVILLE/PROSPECT and Exit 105: PA 108 - SLIPPERY ROCK, according to PennDOT. Multiple medical vehicles, including helicopters were called to the scene just after 5 p.m., according to numerous broadcast news reports and as seen on PennDOT's 511pa. The crash involves a school bus, as reported by WPXI. All northbound lanes of I-79 are closed in the area of Worth…

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by Jillian Pikora
Police & Fire
Berks County School Bus Aide Sprayed Students With Cleaning Solution, Authorities Say Berks County School Bus Aide Sprayed Students With Cleaning Solution, Authorities Say
Berks County School Bus Aide Sprayed Students With Cleaning Solution, Authorities Say A Berks County school bus aide was slapped with assault and harassment charges for spraying young students with a cleaning solution, authorities said. Juan Antonio Dorta, 52, who works with New Story School in Reading, was caught on bus surveillance footage spraying a 12-year-old boy with what investigators confirmed to be a glass and multi-surface cleaner, according to the Berks County Detectives office. The 12-year-old boy told investigators Dorta sprayed him in his eyes, face, and mouth with a blue bottle and threatened to punch him in early May, authorities said. Additio…

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by Nicole Acosta