Greyhound Lines, the North American provider of intercity bus transportation, has ordered 140 X3-45 coaches from Volvo-owned Prevost, a Canadian manufacturer of intercity touring coaches and bus shells. The new vehicles, which are to be used on various intercity lines, will be delivered from February to July of 2009.

An FBI probe of Mayor Willie Herenton's ties to city contractors has turned its attention to the Greyhound bus station in Downtown Memphis where the city has major redevelopment plans. Federal agents are examining Herenton's little-known plan to relocate Greyhound to the Memphis International Airport area, a move that has already cost $3 million and could eventually put much larger sums at stake.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony is set for 2 p.m. at the site, 200 S. Front St., although the existing Greyhound station, at 212 N. Bartlett St., will remain open until Oct. 1.

AS Irma Mendoza crawled from the twisted bus on the side of a darkened highway 30 miles south of the Texas-Mexico border, she searched in the darkness for her 19-year-old daughter.

Yani Bocanegra, three months pregnant and a Houston tech school student, was thrown through the bus window and lay crushed beneath the twisted metal of the overturned bus. She died at the scene.

" I saw the driver running away, and I called for him to come back and help," Mendoza said of the company bus driver who had fallen asleep before the pre-dawn crash.

Yani Bocanegra, three months pregnant and a Houston tech school student, was thrown through the bus window and lay crushed beneath the twisted metal of the overturned bus. She died at the scene.

" I saw the driver running away, and I called for him to come back and help," Mendoza said of the company bus driver who had fallen asleep before the pre-dawn crash.

In October 2007, FirstGroup was facing a dilemma. Britain’s leading rail and bus operator had purchased the US transport group Laidlaw for $3.4bn to gain access to its lucrative school bus business, but there was a hitch. The deal also included the purchase of Greyhound Lines, the long-distance bus brand that had fallen on hard times.

Storm-canceled air service was expected to resume in Baton Rouge today, but officials for Greyhound Lines had no estimate Monday for the return of bus transportation. Amtrak officials in Chicago said rail service from New Orleans to Memphis, Tenn., is not expected to resume before Wednesday.

Greyhound Lines Inc. will stop operating out of its main terminal in New Orleans about 7 p.m Central time Friday, and operations will move to Baton Rouge, spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said. The federal Department of Homeland Security will take over the city-owned site, while the carrier has buses on standby in San Antonio.

MANCHESTER – The number of bus trips between downtown Manchester and Boston would be cut nearly in half under a proposed schedule released yesterday. Some service is available on another carrier. Vermont Transit, now operating as Greyhound Lines, has a bus run that leaves the Manchester Transportation Center at 9:55 p.m. Its return trips leave Boston at 8 a.m. and 11:45 p.m.

DALLAS-The 93,087-sf former Greyhound Lines Inc. headquarters has sold for the second time in four years, with the deed this time passing to a local partnership for more than $10 million. The bus lines' exit jump-started marketing late last year of the class B office building, with a class A location at a major North Dallas intersection.

An exemption request from Greyhound Lines Inc. seeks permission to place video event recorders on the inside of the windshields of its 1,650 buses at a lower position than federal rules now permit. The regulations say antennas and devices may not be mounted more than 6 inches below the top of the windshield and cannot block the part of the windshield that is swept clear by windshield wipers, but Greyhound says today's commercial bus windows and wipers are larger than they used to be, and the recorders must be in part of the swept area to maximize safety.