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Authorities in Spain says rescuers have recovered the victims from a bus that ran off a bridge and plunged into a river on Christmas Eve, killing six passengers and injuring the driver and another passenger

Thirteen people were injured Friday when a Greyhound bus blew a tire and veered into a sports utility vehicle and a center divider wall on a California desert highway, authorities said. There were 33 people aboard the bus when it crashed in Banning, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) east of Los Angeles while heading from Los Angeles to Phoenix on Interstate 10, said California Highway Patrol Officer Jason Montez. The bus was traveling at about 60-65 mph (96-105 kph) when its left front tire blew out and it veered to the left and hit the Mitsubishi and then the center divider, he said.

The baby formula shortage has many moms feeling pressure to breastfeed their infants. And some doctors are now seeing an increase in "tongue-tie" diagnoses, a condition in newborns that can make it difficult to nurse. Dr. Susannah Hills, pediatric ENT and airway surgeon, joined CBS News to discuss the condition and the procedure to fix it.

A bus carrying about 50 refugees from Ukraine has overturned on a major highway in northern Italy, killing one passenger and injuring five others injured, none of them seriously.

A VIA bus was caught in the crossfire in a shooting on the East Side, San Antonio police say.

VIA is looking to make temporary service changes to meet the demand in the San Antonio area despite a labor shortage.

Parents of Northside ISD students are frustrated and concerned about their children’s safety after the lack of bus drivers led to overcrowding on a Harlan High School bus in which students were sitting on each other.

“They are being tricked, because in Mexico they are told that in El Ceibo there will be a bus that will take them to their countries. These are lies. When they arrive they say: Where is the bus? Where do I take it to go to my country?” said Natalia Lorenzo, who works for the Guatemalan government’s human rights ombudsman in Petén, the department where El Ceibo is located.

A speeding bus carrying mostly laborers traveling home for a major Muslim holiday rammed into a container truck on a busy highway in central Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 28 people and injuring 40, police and rescue officials said. The bus had left the city of Sialkot and was traveling on Taunsa Road; its destination was the city of Dera Ghazi Khan in eastern Punjab province, said senior police officer Hassan Javed. According to Sher Khan who was in charge of the rescue team at the site, some of the injured were in critical condition.

SAN ANTONIO – A Northside ISD bus was involved a minor crash on Friday morning, according to school district officials. The crash was reported near Babcock and Hamilton Wolfe Friday morning around 9 a.m. The bus had one driver and one student on board, Northside ISD spokesperson Barry Perez said. The high school student was not injured and was taken to school. The driver was taken to a medical clinic as a precaution, but no life-threatening injuries were reported, Perez said.

SAN ANTONIO – A Southside ISD school bus with two students on board was clipped by a car Tuesday afternoon in south Bexar County, district officials said. According to school district spokesman Randy Escamilla, a car swerved into the bus and clipped it. Only the bus driver and two students were on board at the time of the collision. Escamilla said the students walked out of the bus on their own. The bus driver was not at fault in the accident, officials said.

SAN ANTONIO A San Antonio VIA Metropolitan Transit bus operator is stressing the importance of wearing a mask while, at the same time, sharing his growing concern as the coronavirus pandemic continues. At the start of the pandemic, it was kind of scary, the bus operator, who asked not to be identified, said. As of Tuesday, 56 out of 1,200 bus operators have tested positive for the virus. Even now, my hand is shaking, and I am at home, the bus operator said. The bus operator said he follows the necessary health precautions as he makes his routes.

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SAN ANTONIO – Before you try and catch your next ride on a VIA Metropolitan Transit bus, make sure to bring your face covering along with you. Starting Wednesday, you'll need to have a face covering to get in a VIA vehicle, according to the transit agency. VIA says it requires the face coverings in accordance with city and county rules. COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the new virus, stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The first case confirmed in the U.S. was in mid-January and the first case confirmed in San Antonio was in mid-February.

VIA Metropolitan Transit is offering free bus and van rides on the March 3 Primary Election Day. Passengers just need to show a valid voter registration card to the bus or van operator to ride. What you need to know about voting in the Texas Primary Elections on March 3The free rides will be available for regular bus service and for VIAtrans paratransit service. Bus passengers can plan their trip to vote through the VIA goMobile app. VIAtrans customers need to be registered and must schedule their trip in advance by phone or online.

Drop-off locations have been confirmed for the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School Districts 2019 Stuff the Bus school supply drive, which stated on Monday, July 1. The Stuff the Bus campaign aims to rally community support by collecting various types of school supplies, which are in turn donated to needy families in the district. For UCISD, the 2018-2019 school supply list included items such as pencil pouches, washable markers, crayons, glue sticks, composition books, and large pink erasers. A complete school supply list is available at ucisd.net. UCISD lead family and student specialist and Stuff the Bus coordinator Niki Henderson said anyone wishing to donate may drop off supplies at several locations throughout Uvalde.

North Dakota women's hockey team tries to push bus The University of North Dakota team's bus got stuck at an intersection on the way home from Minnesota. The players tried with little luck to push the bus until a tow truck arrived.