Three killed, several injured in bus crash

JACKSON - A casino bus full of tourists overturned in northwestern Mississippi yesterday, killing three people and injuring several others. The bus belonged to Harrah's Tunica and was carrying 43 people when it flipped over in a median at an intersection in Tunica, Tunica County spokesman Larry Liddell said. The tourists were headed to the airport for a flight to South Carolina, where many were from, officials said. (AP)

SHERMAN - Companies linked to a bus that crashed in Texas and killed 17 people pose an "imminent hazard" and must cease commercial operations, federal officials said yesterday, shortly after authorities took another bus out of service in Missouri because it failed an inspection. Inspectors found the other bus operating in Carthage, Mo., said a National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman. It was registered to Iguala BusMex Inc., the unlicensed company that also owned the bus in the Texas crash. (AP)

Almost three-quarters of Americans are trying to reduce their "carbon footprint" to cope with high gas prices and concerns about global warming, according to an ABC News poll. People are driving less, cutting electricity consumption, and recycling to reduce their use of energy or goods that create greenhouse gases, the poll found. Seventy-one percent of those polled are taking one or more of these steps, the survey said. About 63 percent back offshore oil drilling in areas that are now off limits. (Bloomberg)

ARCHES NATIONAL PARK - One of the largest and most photographed arches in Arches National Park has collapsed. Paul Henderson, the park's chief of interpretation, said Wall Arch collapsed sometime late last Monday or early Tuesday. The arch is along Devils Garden Trail, one of the most popular in the park. Henderson said the arch was claimed by forces that will eventually destroy others in the park: gravity and erosion. (AP)

NEW YORK - Firefighters and residents say an apartment fire in New York City has killed a woman and her adult son and sent neighbors running to the roof to escape. The blaze erupted in a third-floor apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side shortly after midnight. Authorities say they haven't determined what started the fire. Fifth-floor resident Dan Guertin tells the Daily News sirens woke him up and he fled to the roof and climbed to a building next door. Building manager Glen Fogel says the victims were longtime residents of the building. (AP)