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• NTSB: No evidence of pre-impact fire in bus crash
• California fatal bus crash: Was FedEx truck cargo involved?
• NTSB: No evidence of pre-impact fire in CA crash
• IOC welcomes Saudi end to girls' sports ban
• NTSB examines claim truck was on fire before crash
• Ignition! College Students Light Tiny Fires in Zero-G
• NTSB: Claim about truck fire still uncorroborated
• FedEx semi didn't brake before California crash

NTSB: No evidence of pre-impact fire in bus crash Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:24 PM PDT RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators said Sunday that they haven't found physical evidence confirming a witness' claim that a FedEx truck was on fire before it slammed into a bus carrying high school students, killing 10 people in Northern California.

California fatal bus crash: Was FedEx truck cargo involved? Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:11 PM PDT Last week's fatal crash involving a bus full of California high school students wasn't the first instance of a FedEx truck bursting into flames. In Corte Madera, Calif., Friday – the day after the head-on crash along the I-5 interstate highway that killed 10 people – the driver of a smaller FedEx truck saw smoke coming out of the cargo area. Fire investigators suspect either an electrical malfunction or a chemical reaction caused the fire. There have been other recent FedEx truck fires as well.

NTSB: No evidence of pre-impact fire in CA crash Posted: 13 Apr 2014 12:44 PM PDT RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators say they haven't found any physical evidence that a FedEx truck was on fire before it slammed into a bus carrying high school students, killing 10 people in Northern California.

IOC welcomes Saudi end to girls' sports ban Posted: 13 Apr 2014 12:00 PM PDT The International Olympic Committee on Sunday urged the Saudi government to push forward with moves to lift a ban on sports in girls' state schools. The conservative Muslim kingdom's consultative Shura Council last week recommended an end to the ban, which was relaxed in private schools last year, state media reported. "We welcome this development and look forward to approval by the Education Ministry," IOC spokesman Mark Adams said in a statement. Adams noted that IOC president Thomas Bach had raised women's involvement in sport when he visited Saudi Arabia.

NTSB examines claim truck was on fire before crash Posted: 13 Apr 2014 10:05 AM PDT RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into a driver's claim that a FedEx tractor-trailer was already on fire when it careened out-of-control across a freeway median and slammed into a bus taking high school students on a college tour, killing 10 people in a fiery wreck.

Ignition! College Students Light Tiny Fires in Zero-G Posted: 13 Apr 2014 03:46 AM PDT HOUSTON — A slightly dazed group of college students they stepped off a ZERO-G plane to resounding cheers Thursday (April 10), pumping their fists to celebrate a weightless voyage packed with science experiments, including one test that sparked tiny balls of fire. "It just turns into nothing — suddenly there's just nothing," Andrew Beeler, an aerospace engineering senior at the University of California, San Diego, said after the flight, trying to describe the strange sensation of weightlessness. I'm here at Houston's Ellington Field with Beeler and seven other UCSD undergraduates, who are measuring how different fuels burn under weightless conditions as part of NASA's Microgravity University program. Right now, the cabin of the ZERO-G plane parked outside of a NASA hangar at Ellington Field looks like a science fair, with Stanford, Arizona State and UCSD banners hanging behind the student experiments strapped down to the padded floor.

NTSB: Claim about truck fire still uncorroborated Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:33 PM PDT RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal investigators could not corroborate on Saturday a driver's claim that a FedEx tractor-trailer was already on fire when it careened across a freeway median, sideswiped her car and slammed into a bus carrying high school students, killing 10 people in a fiery wreck.

FedEx semi didn't brake before California crash Posted: 12 Apr 2014 06:40 PM PDT ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — Federal safety investigators say the driver of a Fedex tractor-trailer that struck a bus carrying high school students didn't appear to brake before a fiery collision that left 10 dead.

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