CAR-BUS ACCIDENT KILLS AREA WOMAN

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- A Scott City, Mo., woman died after the car she was driving crashed head-on with a school bus near Olive Branch, authorities said.

Dorothy Berbling, 38, was driving with her 10-year-old son, Charles, on the Olive Branch-Tamms Blacktop a half-mile east of Illinois Route 3 at 3:25 p.m. when her car crossed the middle of the road and struck the bus from the Egyptian School District, Illinois State Police reported.

Berbling was pronounced dead at the scene, said David Barkett, the Alexander County coroner.

An Air-Evac helicopter took Charles Berbling to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, where he remained in the intensive-care unit Monday night.

The Illinois State Police said there were about 60 children on the bus, most of them elementary school students. Parents took two children to hospitals for treatment of minor injuries, police said.

The bus driver, Glenda Christensen, 47, of Olive Branch, was not hurt. No one else was injured.