"The day I put the toilet in the bus, my wife ran out and bought a mattress, and she never spent another night in the house," Heltz said. The couple left New Orleans in 2023 and haven't looked back.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- When Capt. David Wilson, a Massachusetts National Guardsman from Charlton, Mass., saw the partially overturned school bus off I-95 he couldn't have known that there were 22 ...