KANSAS CITY (AP) – A mother and her boyfriend are charged with the malnutrition death of a 2-year-old in a rat-infested Kansas City home.

Prosecutors announced Monday that 25 -year-old Saritza Serrano and 24-year-old Ruben Yepez-Ruiz are charged with abuse or neglect of a child resulting in death. No attorneys are listed for them in online court records.

Charging documents say emergency crews responded to their home on Nov. 16. They found the boy’s body in feces-covered bedroom with a door that latched on the outside.

Serrano told police the boy had been sick for three weeks but that she hadn’t taken him to a doctor. She said she fed him milk through a bottle. Yepez-Ruiz said he hadn’t seen the child in several weeks, although they lived in the same home together.

SCOTT COUNTY— One person died in an accident just before 7:30 p.m. Monday in Scott County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2017 Toyota Camry driven by Mony Sen Conner, 39, Dodge City, was southbound on U.S. 83 twelve miles north of Kansas 96.

The driver attempted to pass a southbound 2010 Freightliner truck driven by Luis Fernando Jimenez-Sanjuan, 35, Garden City, on the left.

The Toyota side-swiped the driver’s side of a northbound 2015 Ford E450 driven by Stanton Ray Herrada, 19, Garden City.

The Toyota then pushed back over into the southbound lane and side-swiped the Freightliner truck.

Conner was pronounced dead at the scene and was transported to Price and Sons Mortuary.

Jimenez-Sanjuan and Herrada were not injured. All three were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

NEW YORK (AP) — It’s OK to eat some romaine lettuce again, U.S. health officials said. Just check the label.

The Food and Drug Administration narrowed its blanket warning from last week, when it said people shouldn’t eat any romaine because of an E. coli outbreak. The agency said Monday the romaine linked to the outbreak appears to be from the California’s Central Coast region. It said romaine from elsewhere should soon be labeled with harvest dates and regions, so people know it’s OK to eat.

People shouldn’t eat romaine that doesn’t have the label information, the FDA said. For romaine that doesn’t come in packaging, grocers and retailers are being asked to post the information by the register.

Romaine harvesting recently began shifting from California’s Central Coast to winter growing areas, primarily Arizona, Florida, Mexico and California’s Imperial Valley. Those winter regions weren’t yet shipping when the illnesses began. The FDA also noted hydroponically grown romaine and romaine grown in greenhouses aren’t implicated in the outbreak.

The labeling arrangement was worked out as the produce industry called on the FDA to quickly narrow the scope of its warning so it wouldn’t have to waste freshly harvested romaine. An industry group said people can expect to start seeing labels as early as this week. It noted the labels are voluntary, and that it will monitor whether to expand the measure to other leafy greens and produce.

The FDA said the industry committed to making the labeling standard for romaine and to consider longer-term labeling options for other leafy greens.

Robert Whitaker, chief science officer of the Produce Marketing Association, said labeling for romaine could help limit the scope of future alerts and rebuild public trust after other outbreaks.

“Romaine as a category has had a year that’s been unfortunate,” Whitaker said.

The FDA still hasn’t identified a source of contamination in the latest outbreak. There have been no reported deaths, but health officials say 43 people in 12 states have been sickened. Twenty-two people in Canada were also sickened.

Even though romaine from the Yuma, Arizona, region is not implicated in the current outbreak, it was blamed for an E. coli outbreak this spring that sickened more than 200 people and killed five. Contaminated irrigation water near a cattle lot was later identified as the likely source.

Leafy greens were also blamed for an E. coli outbreak last year. U.S. investigators never specified which salad green might be to blame for those illnesses, which happened around the same time of year as the current outbreak. But officials in Canada identified romaine as a common source of illnesses there.

The produce industry is aware the problem is recurring, said Jennifer McEntire of the United Fresh Produce Association.

“To have something repeat in this way, there simply must be some environmental source that persisted,” she said. “The question now is, can we find it?”

Growers and handlers in the region tightened food safety measures after the outbreak this spring, the industry says. Steps include expanding buffer zones between cattle lots and produce fields. But McEntire said it’s not known for sure how the romaine became contaminated in the Yuma outbreak. Another possibility, she said, is that winds blew dust from the cattle lot onto produce.

McEntire said the industry is considering multiple theories, including whether there is something about romaine that makes it more susceptible to contamination. Compared with iceberg lettuce, she noted its leaves are more open, thus exposing more surface area.

Since romaine has a shelf life of about 21 days, health officials said last week they believed contaminated romaine could still be on the market or in people’s homes.

Food poisoning outbreaks from leafy greens are not unusual. But after a 2006 outbreak linked to spinach, the produce industry took steps it believed would limit large scale outbreaks, said Timothy Lytton, a Georgia State University law professor. The outbreak linked to romaine earlier this year cast doubt on how effective the measures have been, he said.

But Lytton also noted the inherent risk of produce, which is grown in open fields and eaten raw.

HUTCHINSON — Two men accused of murder for the shooting death of a Hutchinson man on June 26 have been bound over for trial.

Eighteen-year-old Tristan Delaney and 26-year-old Curtis Garcia are accused of being involved with the killing of 18-year-old Norman Cushinberry. He had multiple gunshot wounds and his leg may have been run over with a green pickup.

The theory for the crime involves Delaney and Cushinberry purchasing drugs. According to court testimony, Delaney and Garcia had been texting the day of the shooting about the purchase of around a quarter pound of marijuana.

There is also some indication over phony money being involved. Garcia claims he was there to sell an Xbox and not drugs.

Police found Cushinberry in the street suffering from gunshot wounds to his upper chest, on his side around the rib cage, and around his upper arm. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful.

According to testimony, Delaney came out of a home in the 500 block of Washington with a shotgun. That gun was later found near Cushinberry.

Because of the dispute between the two suspects, it’s likely they will be tried separately.

Both will be arraigned before separate judges in separate Reno County courtrooms on Monday December 3.

SEDGWICK COUNTY Law enforcement authorities are investigating an armed robbery and have a suspect in custody.

Just after 2a.m. Saturday, police responded to an armed robbery call at a convenience store in the 700 Block of West 29^th Street North, according to officer Charley Davidson.  A 23-year-old f employee told police a suspect later identified as 18-year-old Ivan Vasquez entered the business, pointed a handgun at her and demanded money.  Vasquez took the cash and fled on foot.

On Saturday evening, investigators located and arrested Vasquez. He was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail for aggravated robbery, possession of marijuana and obstruction, according to Davidson.

Investigators are working to determine if this Vasquez is also responsible for other armed robberies in the area.  Police will present the case of Saturday’s robbery to the district attorney later this week, according to Davidson.

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Leavenworth police say a 74-year-old woman fatally shot a man who she thought was trying to burglarize her home.

Police Chief Pat Kitchens says when officers responded to the woman’s call early Saturday they found the 41-year-old suspect, Ralph Byrd Jr., of Leavenworth suffering from a gunshot wound.

Byrd was pronounced dead at the scene.

Kitchens says the woman suffered a “medical event” after the shooting and was taken to a hospital but was expected to survive.

Kitchens says the focus of the investigation will be to determine if Byrd was committing a burglary when he was shot.