The Maryland State Fire Marshal says a school bus caught on fire in Chestertown after a student lit a road flare. School officials say the driver and all 28 students on board got off the bus, although six or seven …
The Appleton Board of Education has denied a liability claim for a student who lost part of a finger last spring. Mariah Yang was injured trying to retrieve a volleyball from Madison Middle School’s bleachers. Her family sought $100,000 from …
Hattiesburg Public School District is among a handful of school districts nationwide testing a guard designed to push any student who falls in front of the passenger-side rear wheels out of the bus’s path. District transportation director Audrae Barnes told …
Another local school district in Virginia is facing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over allegations of a child being assaulted on a school bus. The Daily Progress reports that an Appomattox County mother and her 10-year-old son filed a $31.5 million lawsuit …
A rented U-Haul that struck and killed a Massachusetts tailgater at a Yale-Harvard football game malfunctioned as a Yale undergraduate drove the vehicle into a crowded parking lot, the student’s attorney said Sunday. William Dow, representing Yale student Brendan Ross, …
A couple is suing their northwest Indiana school district, claiming school officials failed to protect their son from prolonged bullying over his Middle Eastern background that culminated in an attack this month that left him with a brain injury. In …
An overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class, officials said. Sixty-two children and two adults were crowded into the bus, which had …
A man whose son was killed in an accident last year during a class at River Parishes Community College has filed a lawsuit. The Advocate reports that 19-year-old Joshua Wallace of Prairieville was killed in Oct. 2010 during an electrical …
A high school freshman was taken to a hospital after being bitten by a snake during an outdoor physical education class. Authorities say the student was bitten on the back of his leg Tuesday afternoon at Huffman High School. WBRC-TV …
A security company is being sued by the mother of a Virginia Tech student who was killed after she attended a Metallica concert in Charlottesville. Media outlets report that Gil Harrington filed the $3.5 million lawsuit last week in Roanoke …