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WRAL News was told that 24 students were on board, ages 5 to 11. Two students were taken to WakeMed for femur fractures and facial lacerations. Seven other students were taken to a hospital in Smithfield.

2nd Johnston County school bus crash in 4 days sends 9 children to hospital

<p>LAST 10 DAYS. LAURA LEVINE, WRAL NEWS IN RALEIGH. &gt;&gt; AND BREAKING HERE IN THE WRAL LIVE CENTER. WE ARE GETTING OUR FIRST IMAGE OF THE CRASH SCENE OF THAT SCHOOL BUS CRASH IN JOHNSTON COUNTY THAT INJURED SOME STUDENTS IS ON STEVENS CHAPEL ROAD AND YOU CAN SEE THE REAR AND OF THIS BUS HAS DAMAGE OUR CREW ON THE SCENE SAYS IT APPEARS THE BUS MAY HAVE RUN OFF THE ROAD AND GONE INTO A TREE. WE HAVE YET TO CONFIRM THAT. BUT YOU CAN SEE THE DAMAGE THERE IN THE EMS. THERE ARE WORKING TO FIND OUT HOW MANY STUDENTS WERE ON BOARD AND HOW MANY THE STUDENTS WERE INJURED IN THAT CRASH. WE REACHED OUT TO JOHNSON COUNTY SCHOOLS. THEY WOULD GIVE US A NUMBER AS FAR AS HOW MANY</p>

Eight children to hospital from Johnston County school bus crash 

School bus crash sends 9 children to hospital on Monday morning

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Monday, May 6, 2024 -- The leaders of the General Assembly need to be less enamored with their ideological passions and more devoted to their pledge of allegiance to the state Constitution. North Carolina's children deserve no less and the state's future depends upon it.

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The N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has lifted the quarantine of the only herd within North Carolina that was under isolation for a dangerous avian flu virus.

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Loved ones are gathering for a memorial service for Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas Weeks on Monday morning.

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