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MCCSC and eight other school districts will receive federal funding from the EPA to replace diesel school buses with electric buses.

With the exception of Michigan City Area Schools, the awards went to districts in rural areas.

A Bartholomew County jury deliberated about six hours Thursday before convicting Shiam Sunder Shankara Subramanian on two felony counts in 16-year-old Lilly J. Streeval’s death.

MCCSC received a tip about an armed student on a bus and detained the student before the student could enter the school. The Monroe County Sheriff’s Department arrested the student, who faces a one-year expulsion.

If you disregard a school bus stop arm, violators could pay a fine of up to $10,000 and have their license suspended for up to 90 days for the first offense, or up to one year for the second offense.

Kelly Pitner said her first thought when seeing the photo was, what if there were an accident or something went wrong and the kids needed to get off the bus quickly?

According to bus driver Rocky Laster, over 40 bus drivers have left the system in the last year and more are actively looking for other jobs.

The advisory committee recommended approving negative rapid antigen tests for asymptomatic, unvaccinated students five to seven days after being identified as a close contact.

At the beginning of the school year, the district was short 14 drivers. However, 22 others have quit in the last three month.

Prosecutors formally charged a man Friday in the hit-and-run death of a 16-year-old southern Indiana high school student as she prepared to board a school bus.