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The Hawaiʻi Board of Education details how the contaminated water crisis impacts public schools; The Sex Abuse Treatment Center gets ready to roll out a new web chat feature; Hawaiʻi Island's Hele-On bus service discusses its ambitious goals; and how artificial lights affect fledgling seabirds and turtles

In Guatemala, bus drivers are being gunned down at an alarming rate. The hazardous situation on Guatemala's buses is a result of a confluence of corruption, crime and poverty. The Guatemalan government pays millions of dollars a year in subsidies to bus owners, yet the battered vehicles on the streets are mostly old school buses from the United States.

The Hawaiʻi County Mass Transit Agency says its Hele-On bus service will be fare-free through Dec. 31, 2023. The county also hopes that the free fares will be extended through 2024 once it receives the American Rescue Plan Act funds.

The Florida Highway Patrol has arrested the driver of a pickup truck that crashed into a farmworker bus early Tuesday on charges of driving under the influence-manslaughter. At least 40 were injured.

In 1961, the Freedom Riders set out for the Deep South to defy Jim Crow laws and call for change. Their efforts transformed the civil rights movement. Raymond Arsenault is the author of 'Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice'.

In Erin and Philip Stead's follow-up to 2010's A Sick Day for Amos McGee, the fastidious zookeeper gets help from his animal friends to finish his chores, so they can go on an exciting outing.

One year ago, a bus of elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees caught fire on a Texas highway. Bill Zeeble of member station KERA in Dallas reports on how the witnesses to that tragedy are faring now.

Wednesday markets the 50th anniversary of the start of the Freedom Rides, when an integrated group of Civil Rights activists rode together by bus through the deep South challenging integration. Historian Raymond Arsenault recounts their journey in Freedom Riders.

PANGUITCH, Utah — Authorities on Saturday identified the four Chinese tourists killed in a bus crash in southern Utah, and the tour group is dispatching…

A bus exploded and caught fire, which spread to a second bus, Israeli police say. Two of the victims are children.