MITCH WEISS Associated Press= LAVONIA, Ga. (AP) — A double-decker bus caught fire along Interstate 85 in northeast Georgia, forcing passengers to scramble off and closing the northbound lanes of the busy highway for hours on Wednesday. The bus was traveling from Atlanta to Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday when the fire began about 11:40 a.m. near Lavonia. Chicago-based Megabus said about 80 passengers were aboard and all were safely evacuated by the driver in the accident that is the latest in a string of problems for the company. Georgia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Terri Pope said crews were cutting the charred bus in half horizontally to haul it from the highway. "It's the only...
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