Jose Reyna thought it would be a routine night at the grocery store with his wife. Instead, he became a hero and was honored last week by the Houston Police Department. Reyna helped the victim of a purse-snatching - and rescued a plainclothes, off-duty cop who was trying to subdue the suspect. On a warm summer night - June ...

    He calls himself a policeman without a badge, and the 6-foot-2, 275-pound METRO bus driver has lately helped passengers in a way many would consider heroic. Kenneth Roberson says he's simply doing what he was trained to do: Treat everyone with kindness and respect. A bus operator who works out of our Hiram Clarke facility, ...

    Melvin Riley was driving the Park & Ride 204 Spring bus on the HOV lane when a scream pieced the air. A gentleman had suddenly suffered a seizure. "My first thought was to get the bus off the HOV lane," recalls Riley, 54, of the March incident. "The reason being there was no way we could help him on the HOV. ...

    Two minutes after bus operator Jacqueline Cooper pulled out of the Townsen Park & Ride lot, her 17 years of bus driving skills were about to be tested in a life-or-death incident. She had just loaded about 40 passengers on the 257 Townsen P & R when she noticed a motorcyclist trying to enter the HOV lane from the Park ...

  Meet our next "Hero on Wheels." Sean Hill has been driving a bus for METRO for almost a decade. Last fall, Hill became an instant hero to a young boy in crisis. The single father of three girls - ages 17, 15 and 2 - was driving the 80 Dowling/Lyons route when he noticed a three-year-old boy walking alone around a bus stop on ...

  The men and women who drive our buses more than 500 square miles every day see and hear all sorts of things - including emergencies. And sometimes they commit extraordinary acts while on the job - things that are truly above and beyond the call of duty. We want to honor these drivers who do heroic acts. We are calling them "Heroes ...