Texas Bus Crash Kills 13

Charter was bound for religious event

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 8, 2008 12:07 PM CDT

(AP) – A bus carrying members of a Vietnamese church group to a religious festival crashed onto its side and then skidded off a freeway 64 miles north of Dallas today, killing at least 13 people. Authorities said 24 others were hospitalized. The bus carrying 55 people... Read full story »

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