Published Monday | February 25, 2008
Minn. Girl Turns 10 at Twin Brothers' Funeral
The Associated Press

COTTONWOOD, Minn. (AP) - A girl whose twin brother and older brother were among four children killed in a bus crash turned 10 at their funeral Monday, with 1,400 mourners in a school gym pausing to sing "Happy Birthday" to her.

The service for Jesse Javens, 13, and Hunter Javens, 9, included some painful smiles meant for Hunter's twin, Sasha.

"Hunter would want to celebrate his twin sister's birthday. Jesse would want to celebrate his little sister's birthday," the Rev. Gloria Anderson said at Lakeview School in the southwest Minnesota town of Cottonwood, near the site of last week's crash.

Immigration agents said Monday they'd learned the true identity of the van driver charged with running a stop sign and hitting the bus. Investigators said Olga Marina Franco, 24, of Guatemala, gave them a fake name after the crash and told them she was from Mexico.

Franco is charged with four counts of criminal vehicular homicide and lesser crimes. Authorities say she claims she stopped at the sign and the bus hit her.

Attorney Manuel Guerrero, who represented the woman at a hearing Friday, did not immediately return a call Monday.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers say they believe Franco is an illegal immigrant.
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