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Rosina Switras

On Saturday, 8 people were killed and 44 people were sent to the hospital in Carrizo Springs and Laredo in Texas. 7 people died at the scene and 1 person died later in the hospital. One of the injured victims included the bus driver. One victim at the Laredo hospital had to be transferred to a hospital in San Antonio to be in critical care. The other patients remain in stable condition.

The crash occurred at 11:26am in Webb County close to the Mexican border. The bus driver lost control of the vehicle and it rolled over. It had been raining at the time of the crash, but authorities are not sure if the weather had anything to do with the crash.

A team from the National Transportation Safety Board will start an investigation on Sunday.

Olive Gardens in six U-S cities were the focus of minimum wage and animal welfare protests last week. Its parent company, Darden, is the largest employer of tipped employees in the United States and Olive Garden is its largest restaurant chain. Activists are calling for the company to take the lead on these issues and set an example for other restaurants across the country.

Restaurant Opportunities Center United says between 2008 and 2014 Darden spent more than a million dollars a year lobbying Congress to keep the minimum wage for tipped employees at two dollars and 13 cents an hour. They say if the company directed two percent of its sales to wages it could raise pay to 15 dollars an hour.

In 2015 Darden closed its office in Washington DC and cut its spending on lobbying by about 90 percent. A spokesperson says it was a budget related decision.

Animal rights advocates say they want Darden to cut its use of meat and dairy products by 20 percent. They also want them to use more organic ingredients and source their meat products from farms that follow animal welfare practices that exceed the national standards. Darden spokesperson Rich Jeffers says the company has plans to stop buying meat raised using antibiotics by 2017 and switch to cage-free eggs before 2018. He says by 2025 they plan to switch to crate-free pork.

At a protest at one Olive Garden outside of Washington D-C, several people carried signs that read "Good Food Means a Valued Work Force" and "Olive Garden Pays Unfair Wages, Serves Meat & Dairy From Inhumane Factory Farms."