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BALTIMORE (AP) — Police say six people are dead after a school bus and a commuter bus crashed in southwest Baltimore. Baltimore Police tweeted that no children were aboard the school bus that crashed early this morning. Video from above the scene while it was still dark shows the front part of a yellow school bus smashed into the side of a Maryland Transit Administration bus.
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A lot of people in Philadelphia are having trouble getting to work and school this morning. Public transportation has grinded to a halt after the union representing some 4,700 SEPTA transit failed to reach a new contract agreement before midnight last night. Buses, trolleys and subways in Philadelphia are not operating. But commuter rail lines are still running and there's service outside the city.
HELENA, Ala. (AP) — Folks in parts of the southeastern United States could be faced with another gasoline shortage. A track hoe that was removing dirt yesterday in northern Alabama struck a pipeline, causing an explosion that killed one worker and injured five others. A leak in September that spilled up to 336,000 gallons of gasoline forced the shutdown of the pipeline, leading to days of dry pumps and higher gas prices in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — "There is no case here." That's what Democrat Hillary Clinton is saying about the new FBI examination of emails that could be related to her case. Clinton defended herself yesterday as she focused on battleground Ohio. Meanwhile, The New York Times is reporting that in the 1990s, Republican Donald Trump avoided paying potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes using a maneuver Congress explicitly banned in 2004.
BAZWAYA, Iraq (AP) — An Iraqi special forces general says his men have entered the outskirts of Islamic State-controlled city of Mosul and have taken over the city's state TV building. Mosul has been controlled by militants for more than two years. Meanwhile, the U.N. human rights office is praising efforts by the U.S.-led coalition in its battle to retake Mosul. The U.N. office in Geneva says coalition flights over Iraq have prevented IS from bringing civilians into Mosul to act as human shields.
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