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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A bus driver was acquitted yesterday in the deaths of four passengers killed when his double-decker crashed into an overpass in upstate New York. A judge announced the verdict after a nonjury trial for 60-year-old John Tomaszewski of Yardville, N.J. Tomaszewski would have faced up to four years in state prison on each of four counts of criminally negligent homicide. He sat with his head bowed and showed no reaction as Onondaga County Judge Anthony Aloi read the verdict.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A bus driver was acquitted yesterday in the deaths of four passengers killed when his double-decker crashed into an overpass in upstate New York. A judge announced the verdict after a nonjury trial for 60-year-old John Tomaszewski of Yardville, N.J. Tomaszewski would have faced up to four years in state prison on each of four counts of criminally negligent homicide. He sat with his head bowed and showed no reaction as Onondaga County Judge Anthony Aloi read the verdict.

Megabus continues to expand out of Boston, adding routes to New Haven and Hartford, and to Burlington, Vt. Daily service begins Aug. 17, and trips can be booked at megabus.com now. Megabus is offering 1,000 free seats on both the New Haven-Hartford and Burlington routes - promotional codes are HART1K and BURL1K, respectively - for travel Aug. 17 through Nov. 15. Advance fares start as low as $1. Megabus, which started offering service between New...

The trial of a New Jersey bus driver charged with the deaths of four passengers in an upstate New York crash has opened with a defense lawyer blaming railroad and public officials for failing to fix a dangerously low overpass after numerous accidents. The lawyer tells an Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH'-gah) County judge that John Tomaszewski (tom-uh-SHEV'-skee) had never been on the Onondaga Lake Parkway before but ended up there when a car blocked his usual route. Tomaszewski says he didn't see the overpass outside Syracuse until just before his Megabus plowed into it on Sept.

Megabus.com , which offers fares from $1, said that it would give away 200,000 seats for travel Jan. 4 to March 1, 2012 starting today. The free seats will be subject to availability for travel anywhere megabus.com goes in the United States and to Toronto. Travelers will need to use the promo code GOFREE to book their seats online. From Boston's South Station, Megabus, which offers travelers free WiFi and power outlets, travels to New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Phildelphia, Hartford, New Haven, Portland, Me., Burlington, Vt., and Secaucus, N.J. The company, a unit of Coach USA,...

Stagecoach Group PLC's Megabus, the largest US curbside bus carrier, is trying to get a federal regulator to do what its $1 fares on the East Coast haven't managed to do: Put its top competitor out of business. Megabus has filed at least three challenges with the US Surface Transportation Board since May 2010 contending that BoltBus, operated jointly by Peter Pan Bus Lines Inc. and Greyhound Lines Inc., the largest US bus company, should be restricted or broken up. Greyhound and closely held Peter Pan are...

Megabus on the double Megabus, which offers free Wi-Fi and Internet fares as low as $1, is introducing double-decker buses on its New York to Washington run. Megabus says it's the first company in the United States to use double-deckers for city-to-city travel. Company representatives say that the tall guys will be available on the Boston-New York route in the next four months. PAUL MAKISHIMA AAA drive packages AAA Southern New England offers members "Drive Vacation" packages that include admission tickets, lodging, directions and marked maps, tour books, and discount partner listings.

Even before he took the bus, Northeastern University student Jimmy Okuszka knew he’d like it better than the train. The last time he made a visit to his family in New Jersey, it was on Amtrak, but when he learned the BoltBus service from Boston had free wireless Internet access, he made the switch. “I kind of got a little bored last time just watching movies [on my laptop] and not being able to go on the Internet,’’ said Okuszka, 18, as he waited in line to board the bus at South Station, on his way to visit a friend at Rutgers University.

A Boston music student has been reunited with her $170,000 violin after leaving it on a bus while traveling for the holidays. Muchen Hsieh, a student at the New England Conservatory, arrived in Philadelphia, where she was heading to visit relatives, around 11 p.m. Tuesday on a Megabus. She realized that she left the violin behind about 30 minutes after she got off the bus, said Bryony Chamberlain, a Megabus spokesman. The bus had left the station by the time Hsieh contacted officials, but it was searched at its next stop, in Camden, Pa. There, employees...

Police are asking for the public's help recovering a rare violin left on board a Philadelphia-bound bus by a groggy Boston music student. Philadelphia police say the instrument valued at $172,000 was left in an overhead bin on a Megabus late Tuesday night. Muchen Hsieh tells KYW-TV she noticed she didn't have the violin after getting picked up by the family hosting her visit to the Philadelphia area. She called the bus company but was told the instrument hadn't been found on board.

Stagecoach Group PLC's Megabus, the largest US curbside bus carrier, is trying to get a federal regulator to do what its $1 fares on the East Coast haven't managed to do: Put its top competitor out of business. Megabus has filed at least three challenges with the US Surface Transportation Board since May 2010 contending that BoltBus, operated jointly by Peter Pan Bus Lines Inc. and Greyhound Lines Inc., the largest US bus company, should be restricted or broken up. Greyhound and closely held Peter Pan are exploiting a joint operating arrangement approved by...

A Boston music student has been reunited with her $170,000 violin after leaving it on a bus while traveling for the holidays. Muchen Hsieh, a student at the New England Conservatory, arrived in Philadelphia, where she was heading to visit relatives, around 11 p.m. Tuesday on a Megabus. She realized that she left the violin behind about 30 minutes after she got off the bus, said Bryony Chamberlain, a Megabus spokesman. The bus had left the station by the time Hsieh contacted officials, but it was searched at its next stop, in Camden, Pa. There, employees found a violin in...

Police are asking for the public's help recovering a rare violin left on board a Philadelphia-bound bus by a groggy Boston music student. Philadelphia police say the instrument valued at $172,000 was left in an overhead bin on a Megabus late Tuesday night. Muchen Hsieh tells KYW-TV she noticed she didn't have the violin after getting picked up by the family hosting her visit to the Philadelphia area. She called the bus company but was told the instrument hadn't been found on board.

Megabus.com , which offers fares from $1, said that it would give away 200,000 seats for travel Jan. 4 to March 1, 2012 starting today. The free seats will be subject to availability for travel anywhere megabus.com goes in the United States and to Toronto. Travelers will need to use the promo code GOFREE to book their seats online. From Boston's South Station, Megabus, which offers travelers free WiFi and power outlets, travels to New York, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Phildelphia, Hartford, New Haven, Portland, Me., Burlington, Vt., and Secaucus, N.J. The company, a unit of Coach USA,...

Megabus continues to expand out of Boston, adding routes to New Haven and Hartford, and to Burlington, Vt. Daily service begins Aug. 17, and trips can be booked at megabus.com now. Megabus is offering 1,000 free seats on both the New Haven-Hartford and Burlington routes - promotional codes are HART1K and BURL1K, respectively - for travel Aug. 17 through Nov. 15. Advance fares start as low as $1. Megabus, which started offering service between New...

Even before he took the bus, Northeastern University student Jimmy Okuszka knew he’d like it better than the train. The last time he made a visit to his family in New Jersey, it was on Amtrak, but when he learned the BoltBus service from Boston had free wireless Internet access, he made the switch. “I kind of got a little bored last time just watching movies [on my laptop] and not being able to go on the Internet,’’ said Okuszka, 18, as he waited in line to board the bus at South Station, on his way to visit a friend at Rutgers University.

The trial of a New Jersey bus driver charged with the deaths of four passengers in an upstate New York crash has opened with a defense lawyer blaming railroad and public officials for failing to fix a dangerously low overpass after numerous accidents. The lawyer tells an Onondaga (ahn-uhn-DAH'-gah) County judge that John Tomaszewski (tom-uh-SHEV'-skee) had never been on the Onondaga Lake Parkway before but ended up there when a car blocked his usual route. Tomaszewski says he didn't see the overpass outside Syracuse until just before his Megabus plowed into it on Sept.

Megabus, which offers free wireless Internet access and seats for as low as $1, is rolling out something new along the ultracompetitive Boston-to-New York route: double-decker buses. Starting today, the company plans to switch all its buses on the route to double-deckers - 13 in all. They're not your typical open-air tour buses packed with sightseers. They seat 81 passengers - 25 more than a regular coach - and they're loaded with amenities that include Wi-Fi access, electronic outlets, and TVs. Some of the newer buses traveling to and from Boston will also have a 51-inch-wide glass ceiling.