{"id":356921,"date":"2015-05-26T09:38:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T14:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356921"},"modified":"2015-05-27T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T15:54:14","slug":"pine-tree-school-bus-driver-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356921","title":{"rendered":"Pine Tree School Bus Driver Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/crimescene-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/05\/crimescene-41-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"crimescene-4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-356924\" \/><\/a>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A Pine Tree ISD bus driver is recovering from an assault that happened while dropping off students on his route Monday afternoon. According to the Longview News-Journal, the name of the driver has not been released. No students were injured during the assault. Longview police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said the assault happened just before 4 p.m. near Old Hwy 80 and Breland Street.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The driver was transporting his students for drop off and once the students exited the bus, an individual came on the bus and assaulted the driver,&#8221; district spokeswoman Mary Whitton said.<\/p>\n<p>Brian said the assailant then left the scene in a private vehicle. The driver was transported to an area hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Counselors from all campuses were available at the elementary campuses Tuesday for students who might have witnessed the assault. Counselors were also available at the district&#8217;s transportation department. Additional School Resource Officers rode on the district&#8217;s buses Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREGG COUNTY &#8212; A Pine Tree ISD bus driver is recovering from an assault that happened while dropping off students on his route Monday afternoon. According to the Longview News-Journal, the name of the driver has not been released. No students were injured during the assault. Longview police spokeswoman Kristie Brian said the assault happened &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=356921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pine Tree School Bus Driver Attacked<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":356924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 12:12:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=356921"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357053,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356921\/revisions\/357053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/356924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}