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Bus driver’s problems

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A suburban Chicago woman faces drunken driving charges after police said she was driving a school bus filled with 50 elementary school children yet blew a blood-alcohol level nearly six times the legal limit.

Betty Burden, 54, admitted downing vodka before getting behind the wheel. Another driver smelled alcohol on her breath and alerted authorities as Burden’s bus left the school.

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