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  • Emergency and rescue crews respond to the scene of a tour bus crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on Saturday, March 16, 2013 near Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/The Sentinel, Jason Malmont )

    Pa. college women's lacrosse team's bus crashes, killing 2

    A tour bus carrying a college's women's lacrosse team to a game went off a freeway Saturday in central Pennsylvania and crashed into a tree, killing the driver and one passenger and sending others to hospitals, including some with serious injuries, authorities said.


  • A car with its wheels covered in driveway sealant sits in a parking lot in Harmar, Pa., after exiting the Pennsylvania Turnpike Tuesday night, Nov. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/Valley News Dispatch, Erica Hilliard)

    Sticky goo on Pa. turnpike disables about 150 cars

    A flood of gooey black muck dropped from a tanker truck disabled about 150 cars and damaged an unknown number of other vehicles along a nearly 40-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, officials said.


  • Emergency personnel work the scene where a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis from New York City flipped on its side on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, briefly trapping a woman and injuring about two dozen people, according to authorities, about one mile east of the Lancaster-Lebanon interchange, early Saturday, Aug. 13, 2011, near Manheim, Pa. (AP Photo/Lancaster Newspapers, Dan Marschka)

    Greyhound bus overturns; 14 taken to Pa. hospitals

    The driver of a Greyhound bus bound for St. Louis lost control on the Pennsylvania Turnpike early Saturday, sending the bus careering across the highway and up an embankment before it landed on its side on the interstate, briefly trapping a woman and sending 14 people to hospitals, authorities said.


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