Murder Leads To N.J. Probe Into Bus Deals

By Caroline Hendrie

It is fitting that Frank L. Black and Alan Mackerley got to know each other on a school bus.

Both men's fathers were transportation contractors in Sussex County, N.J., and they met years ago when Mr. Mackerley was a teenager riding a bus driven by Mr. Black.

But the camaraderie of those early encounters evaporated in the intervening decades, as the two men assumed control of their families' bus businesses. In its place arose a rivalry so intense and bitter that authorities believe...