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Iowa District to Pay $4.8M to Settle Suit Over Deadly School Bus Fire

A western Iowa school district will pay $4.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of 16-year-old girl who died in a 2017 school bus fire that also killed the bus driver. Riverside Community School District has reached …

Officials: Better Driver Standards Might Have Helped Prevent Deaths in Iowa Bus Fire

Tougher standards for school bus drivers and a fire suppression system could have prevented the deaths in a 2017 school bus fire in western Iowa, federal safety investigators say. National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt said the Riverside Community …