Word: bus
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...radical demonstrators, the simple presence of GOP delegates was enough to justify throwing bricks through storefronts and a delegate-bus window, lighting a Dumpster on fire, and damaging police cars. Police responded with force, using pepper spray, tear gas and, in some cases, rubber bullets while arresting nearly 300 demonstrators. At least 130 of those arrests were on felony charges, and the National Guard was called to quell violent demonstrators after the main march concluded...
...train alone in the days before the storm. The coordination began in earnest with people registering on a 311 telephone system reporting they had no tangible means of evacuating. They were directed to a meeting point in the city, and then brought to either the downtown New Orleans bus-train station, or airport. There, residents were placed through the standard security measures with Transportation and Security Administration officials. Special care was made to keep families together, Jacks said. In the end, nearly 6,400 people left on some 2,054 flights. It's unclear whether people knew where, exactly, their...
...County are expected to crest above flood stage tomorrow, further complicating matters. But Pollard says things went smoothly for the county thanks to good planning and a new initiative by the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, which coordinated with the state department of education to transport 539 people by school bus to shelters in Jackson, Miss. at no charge. Late on Sunday night, the county opened nine area schools, bringing the total number of sheltered residents to just over...
...program at 8 a.m. Saturday. Residents who had no other means to get out of the city were allowed to bring one bag and a pet in a carrier to various locations where they could board city buses that took them to the Union Passenger Terminal, the city's bus and train station. Officials worked all night to process residents there, and by Sunday morning, the city had processed more than 10,000 residents to get out by bus or train. Those on the buses were being taken to shelters in Shreveport, Monroe or Alexandria. Those on the train...
...style told voters that he was unafraid, that he had nothing to hide and that what you see is what you get. "Anything you want to talk about," he promised reporters aboard the Straight Talk Express in Iowa back in March 2007. "One of the fundamental principles of the bus is that there is no such thing as a dumb question." When asked if he would keep the straight talk coming, McCain replied, "You think I could survive if I didn't? We'd never be forgiven ... I'd have to hire a food taster, somebody to start...