Children released from hospital after Dodson crash

No Dodson School students suffered life-threatening injuries Tuesday when a rural school bus on its morning route crashed into a road grader plowing snow on Route 204 south of Dodson, the Montana Highway Patrol said.

Twenty students, all from southern Phillips County, were treated at the county hospital in Malta and four of those were later taken to Northern Montana Hospital, Phillips County Hospital administrator Larry Putnam said.

A 12-year-old boy was flown to NMH because medical personnel were concerned he might have suffered serious head and neck injuries, Dodson School Superintendent Dol...