The Aliquippa School District said one player on the junior high football team is in critical condition at UPMC Children's Hospital after a school bus crash Saturday morning in Economy Borough, with the rest discharged.
A spokesperson at Allegheny Health Network also told KDKA-TV that two others remain at Allegheny General Hospital. Their ages and conditions are unknown.
Brandon Rue, 12, was standing tall as he recovered from a broken collarbone, surrounded by friends and loved ones at a playground for a vigil.
"I'm just thankful I'm still alive," Rue said. "Most of them is really like family to me and they're all really close friends."
It was just hours earlier, before 10 a.m., when he was with that family, his teammates on the Aliquippa Junior High football team on a school bus, he