{"id":685874,"date":"2026-05-22T07:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685874\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T07:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:15:10","slug":"teen-charged-after-bus-carrying-u-s-minor-league-baseball-team-torched-in-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/685874\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged after bus carrying U.S. minor league baseball team torched in Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779434110_945_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A torched charter bus being used by minor league baseball team Kane County Cougars is seen in this undated photo. The bus was torched while the team was playing a series against the Winnipeg Goldeyes. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Handout-Curtis Haug (Mandatory Credit)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tMay 21, 2026 | 2:08 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>WINNIPEG \u2014 A minor league baseball team was thrown a curveball when its charter bus was torched during a series against the Winnipeg Goldeyes. <\/p>\n<p>Police say the bus for the Kane County Cougars of Illinois was parked at Blue Cross Stadium in Winnipeg when it was set on fire early in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>They say a bystander saw someone on the bus and helped to get them off.<\/p>\n<p>No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A torched charter bus being used by minor league baseball team Kane County Cougars is seen in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-685874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}