CRIME & SAFETY
Overland Park parents charged with murder after death of malnourished toddler
Johnson County prosecutors have alleged the child, who weighed under 12 pounds when she died, was malnourished and died due to neglect, according to recently released court documents.
Lightning strike ignites fire at Fontana grain elevator
FONTANA – A fire caused by a lightning strike destroyed a portion of the Fontana grain elevator on the morning of Thursday, May 2. The first 911 call was made at 9:01 a.m., and firefighters from Miami County Fire District No. 1 in Fontana, Osawatomie, Louisburg and Paola were dispatched to the grain elevator, located on the south side of Dorman Ave. and Stephen St. near railroad tracks in Fontana, according to a news release from Miami County Emergency Management Coordinator Mark Whelan.
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