4 Children killed in bus crash

Two brothers and the daughter of a teacher were among four children killed in Minnesota's worst school bus crash in at least two decades.

The fourth victim was the son of a former teacher at Lakeview School, the small southwestern Minnesota school wracked by the crash.

According to the patrol, those victims were Hunter Javens, 9, and his brother Jesse Javens, 13, both of Cottonwood; Emilee Olson, 9, also of Cottonwood; and Reed Stevens, 12, of Marshall, Minn.

They were among 28 students on a Lakeview bus that was hit by a van as it carried students home from school Tuesday afternoon. At least 14 other people were hurt, including the drivers of the van and a pickup truck the bus rolled onto.

 Sadly we lost four young children and had many others hurt in this accident when a van driven by a young woman drove through a stop sign and hit the school bus which then rolled over onto a pickup truck.

 The Cottonwood crash was the deadliest since at least 1985, said Nathan Bowie, a spokesman for the Department of Public Safety. The department didn't immediately have any earlier data.

 Lets all pray for these families and the children.