Call him the bus driver: Oktoc dairy farmer fully integrated with MSU athletics through second job
Only one man has taken Mississippi State teams to two Final Fours, eight College World Series appearances and every bowl game the Bulldogs have played since 1983.
Troopers: Inattentive driver caused fatal bus wreck
State troopers say an inattentive driver caused a crash that killed a west Alabama school bus driver.
Third student from bus wreck released from hospital
A third student injured in a bus accident on Friday has been released from the hospital, according to a Pickens County Schools press release.
Pickens Co. copes with bus driver death
A school district is working to move on after losing a long-term employee in a bus accident that left several students injured.
Pickens Co. school bus driver dies after crash
The driver of a Pickens County school bus that crashed into a SUV Friday has died.
Monday profile: ‘Big Red Bus’ puts Meady in spotlight
Robert Meady is a man of few words who prefers to keep to himself. For two weeks each spring, he makes an exception, however.
He is the guy who drives “the big red bus” during the Columbus Pilgrimage. In that role, he is surrounded by people, most of whom want to know all about the bus.
FBI: Ala. captor rigged bunker, waged ‘firefight’
As FBI and police negotiators sought for days to coax an Alabama man into freeing a kindergartner held hostage an underground bunker, the captor was making plans of his own, authorities say.
Authorities storm Alabama bunker, rescue kidnapped boy
Law enforcement officers stormed an underground bunker Monday in southeastern Alabama, freeing a 5-year-old boy and shooting his captor to death after they became convinced the child was in imminent danger, officials said.
Monday profile: Bus driver’s unofficial reading program is a hit with students
The final bell of the day rings, and about 30 third through fifth-graders are on their way to meet another Bell.
Pauline Bell warmly greets her children as they climb aboard Bus No. 16 at Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary on Friday.
They aren’t really her children, of course, but it would be easy to make that assumption based on how she interacts with the kids.
Details emerge in Alabama standoff
As an Alabama standoff and hostage drama marked a sixth day Sunday, more details emerged about the suspect at the center, with neighbors and officials painting a picture of an isolated man estranged from his family.
Neighbors: Suspect in Ala. standoff was violent
Jimmy Lee Dykes moved to a rural Alabama neighborhood on a rutted red clay road more than a year ago. It didn’t take long before he had developed a frightening reputation as a volatile man with anti-government views who threatened his neighbors at gunpoint and was viciously violent to wandering pets.