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The New York City Police Department is searching for a man wanted in connection to lewdness in a public bus over the weekend in Brooklyn. According to police, they received a report on Saturday at around 1 p.m. of an unidentified man was masturbating in front of his victim — a 33-year-old woman — inside of a “b1” MTA bus…

A makeshift memorial meant to honor the life of a 15-year-old girl killed last month after she was hit by a school bus has been vandalized and marked with anti-Semitic graffiti. Antonina Zatulovska was found on Jan. 17 after she’d been struck by the driver near Bedford Avenue and Avenue P, near the Midwood neighborhood. Officers found the teen after…

A 15-year-old girl was found dead in a Brooklyn street after she was apparently hit by a school bus, and the driver later arrested, police said Monday. The vehicle, described as a yellow school bus, was gone when officers arrived around 8 a.m. at the scene on Bedford Avenue and Avenue P, near the Midwood neighborhood. They were answering a…

Video could provide new clues into what led to the incident that left a 15-year-old girl dead at a Brooklyn intersection. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Thousands of students on Long Island may not have a ride to school on Thursday as the shortage of bus drivers continues to impact not only schools locally but also those across the country. Romney Smith reports.

The MTA says its cracking down on riders who don’t wear masks on subways, trains and buses. Gaby Acevedo reports.

Starting Thursday, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) will step up mask enforcement throughout its transit system in an attempt to increase mask usage as the city continues to grapple with the ongoing pandemic. This continues an approach was established in September 2020 when the MTA implemented a $50 fine to help increase mask compliance in response to the COVID-19 pandemic….

Commuters brought up issues they face at the latest MTA Board meeting. Romney Smith reports.

A Bee-Line bus has crashed into an elevated subway platform column in the Bronx, with injuries reported. It happened on Jerome Avenue in the Norwood section. Video shows extensive damage to the front of the bus. Westchester County officials said the accident happened around 11:15 a.m. on Bee-Line Route 20, when a car hit the bus and the bus veered…

As President Joe Biden urges more federal spending for public transportation, transit agencies decimated by COVID-19 are struggling to figure out how to win back passengers.

Authorities say a Las Vegas-based tour bus headed to the Grand Canyon rolled over in northwestern Arizona

At least eight people were injured after a New York City accordion-style bus veered off the road and half of it dangled off an overpass. Myles Miller has the latest.

As financial concerns loom over the future of the MTA, transit leadership look to cost-saving measures and a return to at least one source of revenue: bus fares. Starting Monday, fare collection and front-door boarding resume on all buses. Tracie Strahan reports.

A New York man has been charged with criminal possession of stolen property after sheriff’s deputies say he stole a school bus in Pennsylvania to drive home. Justin Preedom stole a school bus and drove back to Avon, New York, on Monday, according to a statement from Livingston County Sheriff Thomas J. Dougherty. Preedom was arraigned and released on...

The MTA will, once again, begin charging passengers to ride buses at the end of the month. This comes after the transportation agency stopped charging bus riders throughout the height of the pandemic.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched a pilot program to mount dispensers of free masks inside buses for its riders in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. The MTA has already completed installed these dispensers on 100 buses on six bus routes in three boroughs. Riders on the Bx12 SBS and Bx41SBS routes in the Bronx, S53 Staten Island…

The bus made famous by John Krakauer’s 1996 book “Into the Wild” has been removed by helicopter after many travelers have been injured or died over the years trying to retrace the steps of the subject of Krakauer’s book.

More than 30 people were expected to deliver victim impact statements. Marc Santia reports.

The school bus driver who pleaded guilty in a crash that killed a fifth-grade student and teacher in New Jersey in 2018 was sentenced to 10 years in state prison. Seventy-nine-year-old Hudy Muldrow pleaded guilty this past December to reckless vehicular homicide, assault by auto and child endangerment. Prosecutors agreed to recommend a 10-year sentence as part of an agreement that…

A New Jersey Transit bus driver accused of killing a pedestrian in a fatal hit-and-run accident last New Year’s Eve was captured this week as she tried to board a plane at Newark Liberty International airport, authorities said. Fayola Howard, 34, of Bloomfield, was arrested Tuesday, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. She has been charged with vehicular...