According to authorities, Mexican drug gangs south of the border are using tourist charter buses more and more to smuggle large amounts of marijuana into southern California. "We are seeing a sharp increase in the use of chartered buses to smuggle narcotics from Mexico, although we are not sure why," Lauren Mack, a spokeswoman for ICE in San Diego, said on Thursday.

A South Carolina bus driver is headed to prison after pleading guilty to accepting a $10 bribe from 2 students who sexually assaulted another student on the bus as he looked the other way. Lacey Jane Bolen, 26, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Wednesday to being an accessory after the fact to second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

A South Carolina bus driver is headed to prison after pleading guilty to accepting a $10 bribe from 2 students who sexually assaulted another student on the bus as he looked the other way. Lacey Jane Bolen, 26, of Goose Creek, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Wednesday to being an accessory after the fact to second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a minor.

Police say a 63-year-old woman was fatally shot as she was waiting for a bus; struck by a stray bullet from a nearby gang-related shooting. The woman, killed Tuesday, is identified Wednesday as Lois Gean Cole. No arrests have been made related to her death, which comes one month after another woman was also killed by stray gunfire.

Always heed a low clearance warning. A soccer fan traveling in a double-decker bus gets a little more that fresh air after poking his head out of a ventilation hatch on the roof, as the vehicle was passing under a low clearance bridge.