There's a lot of pressure to see your friends and family this time of year. And sometimes, you just need a bus to get you there, whether or not your stop is along its intended route. That's what Andrew Hickey, who stole a Greyhound bus from a Syracuse depot and drove it 70 miles to visit a friend, may have been thinking, anyway. more ›

Those travelers who enjoyed occasionally-working WiFi and 32% less bus-funk on Bolt Bus may have to hit the cripplingly depressing Port Authority Bus Terminal. According to the Daily News a quarter of the service's buses—which are owned by Greyhound— will be picking up riders at Gate 84 of the terminal. Retailers and residents have complained that the buses are a nuisance at their current post on 34th Street and Eighth Avenue and 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue. "The buses are so big, you can't even see my business," the manager of Sbarro on 33rd & Seventh said. If New Yorkers can't get a slice at Sbarro, where will they turn? more ›

A Greyhound bus travelling from NYC to St. Louis overturned early this morning on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, injuring over two dozen people. One woman was briefly pinned underneath the bus, and at least 25 of the 29 passengers were injured; three of the injured were transported by air to nearby hospitals. According to Bill Capone, the Turnpike's director of communications, "The bus overturned and we don't know what caused it. According to the state police, no other vehicle was involved in the accident." more ›

The FBI believes that a 60-year-old man wanted for bombing a synagogue in Santa Monica, California last week is on a bus headed for New York. Ron Hirsch, who is also known as "Israel Fisher," bought a ticket to arrive in NYC yesterday. According to CNN, "Surveillance cameras show Hirsch got off the bus in Denver and may have 'further deviated from his original route,'" but the NY Post reports, "The FBI is scouring the city," because Hirsch has family and friends here. more ›

The Post reports a Greyhound bus driver "driven by love" (har) stole a $600,000 coach from Port Authority Bus Terminal to visit his girlfriend in Mount Vernon, NY. A surveillance video caught him disabling the bus's security system and driving it away last Wednesday, and he caused a terror scare when he abandoned the bus in Mount Vernon. more ›

Police found the stolen Greyhound bus that disappeared from a Manhattan maintenance facility last weekend—but the discovery of the 45-foot coach only raised more questions. "Who would want to steal a Greyhound?" asked Jose Martinez, 42, who works in East Elmhurst, Queens, where the vehicle was found. "It's not like you can sell it or hide easily." more ›

[UPDATE BELOW] Thieves stole a Greyhound bus from a West Side maintenance facility and have been spotted driving the vehicle around the city. After heisting the empty coach from a lot at the corner of 12th Avenue and West 30th Street on Feb. 14, the vehicle was reportedly spotted heading towards LaGuardia airport today, a police source said. more ›

Somehow a simple "dog bites dog" headline has garnered nearly a week of news coverage. Actor Gerard Butler (or his "people" as it were) is refusing to give up any vet records (including a bill) or photos showing his pug Lolita was bit by a Queens couple's greyhound, called Mayfly. The couple says Butler threw their dog against a fence during the incident, and told them it should be "put down." WABC talked to Fred Varecka (Mayfly's owner), and he told them, "[Butler]'s in damage control mode right now to try and protect his image." A few more new details: there were two greyhounds, and Varecka says one of them, "lunged at the pug and barked but my wife had good control of the dogs." When they asked him to leash his pug, Butler walked away and they followed him, and that's when Butler hulked out; "In a matter of seconds he slapped the dogs face, dog went flying up against the fence." more ›

It's hard to win when you are accused by a 60-something-year-old couple of abusing their dog. But alas, that is the situation actor Gerard Butler is currently in. Yesterday news came out that a greyhound belonging to the couple encountered Butler and his pug on the street. The pug was unleashed, and the greyhound was leashed. more ›

Jennifer Aniston's co-star (and maybe-beau), Gerard Butler, is back in the news. Last we heard Butler's bodyguard attacked a photographer's car, and now the NY Post reports that the actor allegedly hit a couple's dog late Monday afternoon in LIC. While walking his own pug, Lolita (unleashed!), Butler encountered Fred and Maria Varecka and their greyhound, Mayfly (leashed). When Mayfly went for Lolita (Butler claims taking two bites at her neck), the couple says the actor "slammed Mayfly's head against a fence, screaming, 'That dog should be put down!'" The couple, in their 60s, said the encounter left them shaking, and when they told him he should put a leash on his dog, "he kept on going and going, ranting and raving... He was being verbally abusive." A police report was filed, but no citations have been handed out. Butler's PR spinderella says that he spent the evening at the vet's office, and even shelled out $3,000 for the visit of another family's pet he met there. Meanwhile, Fred Varecka tells the paper, "I thought a lot of him as an actor. And he might still be a good actor. But I don't respect him as a person." No word on whether there will be a ceremonial trashing of their Butler DVDS (Phantom of the Opera and 300). more ›

A Greyhound bus' roof was sheared off when the driver ignored signs about an overpass that was lower than the bus' height. Passenger William Tedeschi said, "All that we heard was a big rip coming from the front to the back. I thanked God I was alive -- I was so scared." more ›