PORT WENTWORTH, GA (WTOC)- State regulators shut down a home daycare in Port Wentworth Thursday, two days after a toddler wandered away.

She was gone for more than an hour, but when police knocked on the door, they say daycare workers didn't even know the 2-year-old girl was gone.

Shauna Rice, owner of Animated Kids Daycare and daycare worker Edma Herrington were charged with cruelty to children, reckless conduct and contributing to the depravation of a minor.

PORT WENTWORTH, GA (WTOC)- A state regulating agency is investigating a Port Wentworth home daycare after police found a 2-year-old girl playing in the street.

Police say the girl was missing for more than an hour, but daycare workers never knew she was gone.

It happened in the Newport subdivision Tuesday. A neighbor, 20-year-old Brianna Brown, was walking home from the park with her niece and says she spotted the girl giggling alone in the middle of the street.

"She was soaking wet, and her diaper was full," Brown said.

GARDEN CITY, GA (WTOC)- Garden City has been
awarded a Georgia Fund loan of more than $3.14 million from the Georgia Environmental
Finance Authority. 

The city will also refinance
existing loans with a lower interest rate. Under the plan, the city will pay a
1.40 percent interest rate on the new 20-year GEFA loan for $3 million. 

The GEFA loan will be used
to finance new water and sewer related capital projects that Garden city will initiate
this year.  The projects include,
according to the city: