Bus Carrying Students Crashes In Alabama, Killing Driver

A bus carrying dozens of Texas high school band members home from a trip to Disney World plunged into a ravine off of an interstate highway in Alabama on Tuesday, killing its driver and injuring several others, authorities said. The bus veered into the median separating the two lanes of the highway in the predawn darkness and fell into a 50-foot (15-meter) ravine at about 5:30 a.m. CDT (1030 GMT), said Baldwin County Sheriff Hoss Mack. “For whatever reason, the charter bus got into the median and ended up going into a ravine,” Mack told reporters near the scene of the accident on Interstate 10 between Mobile, Alabama, and Pensacola, Florida.