Agencies close down day care

ST. LOUIS -- After a building inspector condemned two structures serving as day-care centers, police intervened and shut down the sites.

More than two dozen children were sent home, after their parents were called, from Kid's World Christian Academy on Friday morning.

In the process, officials discovered that a man working at the center was a convicted sex offender, police said. They said no one was arrested.

Missouri Department of Family Services investigators, a city building inspector and city police visited the centers after the state got a tip through a hot line.

Neither police nor state officials would detail the basis for the condemnation. The building inspection office did not return calls Friday. Police said the inspector assigned to the case collapsed and died while with them Friday.