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A man was arrested last week after threatening an MBTA bus driver for driving too slowly in Somerville, Massachusetts, police said.

The man police had identified as a suspect in the stabbing of a Worcester Regional Transit Authority bus driver on Wednesday has been arrested, officials said Friday. Dashaun Stokes-Sims was taken into custody at the Worcester police station, according to the department. He faces charges of armed assault with intent to murder, mayhem and assault and battery with a dangerous…

Authorities are looking for a man who was covered in blood after an attack on a bus driver Wednesday afternoon.

David Tripp, 65, of Norfolk, was arrested and is facing multiple charges after Norfolk middle school students found a gun on the school bus he was driving Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

The person who died after getting struck by a vehicle at a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority bus yard has been identified as a “dedicated and hardworking” employee who had worked for the agency for nearly two decades. Bernadin Etienne, 62, died at the hospital shortly after he was struck by a bus at facility in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood at about…

An MBTA bus driver was killed Monday morning in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood, the transportation agency announced.

An MBTA bus driver has died following an incident at a bus yard in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood Monday morning, the agency said. MBTA general manager Steve Poftak said that the employee died in a “terrible tragedy,” representing a “great loss within the MBTA family,” during a press conference Monday. The employee was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and later...

An MBTA bus driver was assaulted in a road rage incident last month, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday, as they sought the public’s help identifying two men they say were involved. The incident happened on an MBTA bus on Brook Road in Milton on June 25, according to a post on Mass. Most Wanted. The 60-year-old bus driver was struck 10…

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.

An MBTA bus driver was hailed as a hero after she tried to extinguish a fire Wednesday in Lynn, according to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. Maria Gradozzi, 27, was driving to the Lynn garage when she saw a fire at the intersection of Boston Street and Moulton Street, the MBTA said in a press release. Gradozzi, who has been…

Two brothers were arrested Tuesday night after MBTA Transit Police said they threatened a bus driver with a knife because he wouldn’t let them board his out-of-service bus in Watertown. Transit police responded to the Watertown Square bus yard at 11:55 p.m. for a report of two men threatening an MBTA bus driver.

A Maine school bus driver is on leave after being charged with operating under the influence while on the job. On Saturday evening, 68-year-old Richard Tanguay was bringing a Biddeford High School field hockey team back from a state championship game. That’s when a Maine State Police trooper saw Tanguay’s bus drifting in and out of highway lanes on Interstate...

A school bus driver is on leave after an OUI arrest on the job.

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...

Several students and a bus driver were injured Tuesday morning in Dartmouth, Massachusetts when another vehicle’s collision with a deer sent the animal crashing through the front window of a school bus. Dartmouth police said the bus was headed to Dartmouth Middle School on Chase Road around 7:12 a.m. when the incident occurred.

A woman called 911 after being locked in the luggage compartment beneath a bus.

Connecticut State Police have released a 911 call made by a woman locked in the luggage compartment on the bottom of a Peter Pan bus in August.

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.

Surveillance footage shows the shocking encounter between a passenger and a bus driver.

Surveillance footage obtained by NBC10 Boston shows a passenger repeatedly punching a bus driver in Randolph, Massachusetts. The attack happened on Aug. 5. Prosecutors said 24-year-old Matthew Young, of Boston, attacked the driver after he was not allowed to disembark between stops. The driver, identified in court paperwork as Denis Pierre, blacked out from the blow and crashed into another...