Officials of Arkansas town sue owners of buildings that collapsed, killing 2-year-old girl

The owners of two buildings in Morrilton that collapsed in May, killing a 2-year-old girl and injuring her mother, have been sued by the city in an attempt to get the sited cleaned up. The lawsuit filed in Conway County Circuit Court by Morrilton city attorney Bart F. Virden seeks to declare that the property is "a nuisance" and is "detrimental to the health, safety and welfare of the city and the citizens ....," the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/p4gCov) reported in Tuesday’s editions.