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CTV News
3 days ago
- CTV News
Police: 4 dead in a San Antonio crash involving a bus and a stolen vehicle
Emergency services operate after a fatal bus crash in the southbound lanes of Interstate 35 in San Antonio, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (Annasofia Scheve/The San Antonio Express-News via AP) SAN ANTONIO — A speeding stolen car smashed into a bus on an interstate in San Antonio on Thursday, causing a multi-vehicle crash that left four people dead and more than a dozen injured, police said. Two people traveling on the bus were pronounced dead at the scene on Interstate 35 and two died at a hospital, police said. Another 16 people received treatment for their injuries. Several people fled the stolen Camaro without stopping to help, including at least one who was armed, police said. Police Chief William McManus said children and older people were among the injured. The Camaro struck a trailer attached to the bus, causing the bus driver to lose control of the vehicle, which then bounced into a guardrail. A tractor-trailer then smashed into the bus, which rolled onto its side. Several people were ejected from the bus, police said. Police said the people who fled the Camaro have not been located or identified.
Al Arabiya
3 days ago
- Al Arabiya
Police: 4 dead in a San Antonio crash involving a bus and a stolen vehicle
A speeding stolen car smashed into a bus on an interstate in San Antonio on Thursday, causing a multi-vehicle crash that left four people dead and more than a dozen injured, police said. Two people traveling on the bus were pronounced dead at the scene on Interstate 35, and two died at a hospital, police said. Another 16 people received treatment for their injuries. Several people fled the stolen Camaro without stopping to help, including at least one who was armed, police said. Police Chief William McManus said children and older people were among the injured. The Camaro struck a trailer attached to the bus, causing the bus driver to lose control of the vehicle, which then bounced into a guardrail. A tractor-trailer then smashed into the bus, which rolled onto its side. Several people were ejected from the bus, police said. Police said the people who fled the Camaro have not been located or identified.
The Independent
3 days ago
- The Independent
Police: 4 dead in a San Antonio crash involving a bus and a stolen vehicle
A speeding stolen car smashed into a bus on an interstate in San Antonio on Thursday, causing a multi-vehicle crash that left four people dead and more than a dozen injured, police said. Two people traveling on the bus were pronounced dead at the scene on Interstate 35 and two died at a hospital, police said. Another 16 people received treatment for their injuries. Several people fled the stolen Camaro without stopping to help, including at least one who was armed, police said. Police Chief William McManus said children and older people were among the injured. The Camaro struck a trailer attached to the bus, causing the bus driver to lose control of the vehicle, which then bounced into a guardrail. A tractor-trailer then smashed into the bus, which rolled onto its side. Several people were ejected from the bus, police said. Police said the people who fled the Camaro have not been located or identified.
Yahoo
26-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
How a new Infrastructure Academy could help meet Austin workforce gaps, deliver high wages
Since 2022, Mayor Kirk Watson has been wrestling with a challenge. The good challenge, as he calls it, of a booming city: how to tackle affordability and infrastructure. As more people moved to Austin, he wondered, how can he make it so more families keep more money in their pockets? As the growing city's new infrastructure projects ballooned — spanning to $25 billion in projects with the renovation of the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, Interstate 35 expansion and Project Connect — a parallel goal emerged: to help Austinites "make a living making Austin." "I didn't want us just counting the number of new W2s we created. I wanted us to have a real focus on how we get those positions for people that are already here," Watson said in an interview with the American-Statesman. "We're going to be focused on the person." In a SXSW panel March 6, Watson, Austin Community College Chancellor Russell Lowery-Hart and the Texas Workforce boasted their innovative solution to filling Austin's infrastructure demands and jobs: an Infrastructure Academy. They believe it to be the first of its kind because of its collaborative elements. The academy will be both a physical place and a system that will allow one entry point into the thousands of Austin infrastructure careers and support to successfully graduate any Austinite through the program. Not only will it help connect people to jobs through education, but it will connect them to "family-sustaining" wages, Watson said. On Wednesday, the academy will officially "launch" with a career fair in which anyone in Austin can explore careers and paths to get there. The project is "near and dear" to Watson, he said at SXSW. Workforce Solutions Capital Area — Austin and Travis County's data-driven workforce development arm that provides free specialized support to job-seeking Austinites — found that infrastructure and mobility was the second-largest economic sector in the city, expected to add 10,000 new jobs annually, 4,000 of which will go unfilled without intervention. In meeting with stakeholders — including Workforce Solutions, Austin Community College and Travis County Judge Andy Brown — the idea for a "navigation system" into that ripe economic sector was formed. "In modern times, we've never had this much money going into infrastructure. But at the same time, how do we make sure Austin and people in Austin can get to be a part of that?" Watson asked at SXSW. The Infrastructure Academy will consolidate existing resources to simplify applications, meet growing job needs; engage employers and potential workers; and add supports to ensure everyone can access career pipelines. With Austin Community College as its education arm, Workforce Solution as the support and special services, the city as the convener and employers as the on-hands opportunity and destination, the academy streamlines entrance into the industry with the goal of expanding who in the city can access living wages and careers. "This is not just a simple job fair-type of deal. This is a true academy in the sense that it is more of an ecosystem, a network where we're going to meet the individuals where they are and knock down barriers," Watson said. "If one of the barriers for someone being able to get the training, (if what) they need is child care, we're going to help them with child care. If one of the barriers that they have is transportation, we're going to help them with transportation." The City Council authorized $5 million in its last budget cycle to initially fund the project, and Asset Funders Network provided the initial money for the study, Watson said. The $5 million pulls from water and electricity utility services that rely on the future of this workforce, Watson said, and private partners will be essential to its continuation. The academy will have a physical space at ACC's new Southeast Travis County campus, funded by the successful 2022 ACC bond proposition to meet the community's education needs, but it will kick off at the college's Riverside campus until the new facility is completed. Phase 1 of the new campus is set to open in fall 2027, followed by a total opening the next year, the website states. Twenty-four programs currently offered by ACC are in line with the city's infrastructure job demands, but the college is collaborating with pre-apprenticeship unions to create an integrated curriculum directly aligned with employer demands, while also working with Workforce Solutions to create supports such as child care, career counseling and transportation help to make education attainable for everyone, Lowery-Hart said in an interview. The programs "exist in isolation of each other and exist in isolation of the supports from Workforce Solutions, the apprenticeship experiences from the unions," Lowery-Hart told the Statesman. "That's the power of the Infrastructure Academy both as an idea and a physical space — if there's not a front door to any of them, and what we're trying to create is a seamless front door where the student can come in and access all of them, with simple application, career counseling and advocacy and a pathway with resources." By fall 2026, Lowery-Heart hopes the academy will be a "fully integrated, realized vision" with the collaborative curriculum and support programs in place. The care and collaboration makes the academy's approach rare, Lowery-Hart said, and will serve as a model for other cities in meeting their community and workforce needs. "I do believe that all of these elements exist in communities across the country, the difference here is that we're going to do them together," Lowery-Hart said. Though Austin has a relatively low unemployment rate, women make up only 14% of the infrastructure and mobility workforce locally, said Amber Warne, senior director of business engagement for Workforce Solutions. To meet the 4,000 jobs, Workforce Solutions is working to reach out to populations that have low representation, and offer them supports to achieving a career. "We're really working at 'How do we engage non-traditional populations for mobility and infrastructure in a new way, in addition to women, and looking at how do we outreach and let them know about the career options?'" Warne said, adding that the academy will also reach out to K-12 students to educate them about opportunities after graduation. The jobs span from skilled trades, general construction, project management and maintenance, Warne said. "With those categories, there's a number of different jobs that fall into that, ranging from welding, electrician, plumbers, mechanics, bus drivers, and the list goes on," she said. "Part of what this Infrastructure Academy is going to do is create a marketplace that really shows all of that opportunity in the different jobs and the pathways that they provide." The Wednesday program launch will include prospective participants and 22 local employers. Anyone can register to attend. Watson invites anyone interested to come, and he hopes the academy will have an effect in Austin and beyond. "People now across the country are looking at that as well, how we're doing this," Watson said. "My hope is that this becomes one of those uniquely Austin ways of focusing on its people, so that Austin is a more complete city. And by that, I mean it is a city where everyone sees an opportunity to thrive and live." This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Austin's new Infrastructure Academy to bring clear pathways to careers
