Search resumes for ex-cop’s wife

After a winter hiatus, more than 50 volunteers resumed their ground search Saturday for a suburban Chicago mother who went missing last fall.

Stacy Peterson was last seen in late October.

“Right now we’re looking for a body,” said Cassandra Cales, Peterson’s younger sister. “We’re looking for grave sites … anything.”

Investigators are treating the case as a possible homicide and have named Peterson’s husband, former Bolingbrook police officer Drew Peterson, as a suspect. A grand jury is looking into both her disappearance and the death of his ex-wife, Kathleen Savio.

SPRINGVILLE, Ala.

Teacher steers out-of-control bus

The driver of a bus carrying 44 children on a field trip passed out at the wheel, and a teacher’s quick actions kept the vehicle from careening into oncoming traffic, students said.

Math teacher Amy King grabbed the steering wheel and tried to straighten the swerving coach, witnesses told the Birmingham News.

The crash Friday sent 20 people to the hospital, including the driver and King.

“She jumped over and pulled the wheel,” said Alix Romano, a Bryan Elementary School fifth-grader who sat near the front of the bus.

The bus sideswiped 200 feet of guardrail before it came to rest upside down in a drainage ditch.