Day Care Center Closed

The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare has shut down the Walnut Grove Christian Day Care Center in West Mifflin for what it calls "gross incompetence, negligence and misconduct." Tuesday morning, four toddlers, ages 3 and younger, wandered about 200 yards away from the center. They were found on the side of a busy Buttermilk Hollow Road by 2 passing truckers. State inspectors this week visited the day care center and found a hazardous construction site just outside the building that the children walked through, and they said the center was understaffed. The center can appeal the shutdown order.