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Medical examiners have investigated the death of a toddler found dead in a car seat at a day care center in August, and have ruled that the child was strangled by the seat’s straps.

Demar was put down for a nap on Aug. 28 at Mama D’s Day Care, and was found unconscious a few hours later. He died two days later.

The home day-care center, which was run by Doris Meeks, was licensed for only 14 children, but on that day in August there were at least 22 children in the home. Criminal charges have not been filed against Meeks or her 21-year-old daughter, Harmony Shavon Newman, who was the only adult in the home at the time. The Dakota County attorney’s office is still reviewing the case.

We’re going to ditch all of our expensive fishing gear and make the switch to a little pink rod and reel.

“Pink’s her favorite color,” Lindley’s mother Lacy said. Lindley is three years old, but her age didn’t stop her from catching an 18-inch large mouth bass at the Optimist Fishing Contest on Bush Lake in Bloomington.

Both mom and daughter were quite happy with how Lindley’s rod held up. “It’s a Barbie one with striped fishes on it,” the 3-year-old casually explained. “The fish was almost as big as the rod, but it worked. They must make Barbie rods pretty strong,” Lacy Richards said.

Catching a fish like that takes patience and focus, two words not often used to describe a 3-year-old. “She wanted a worm. She liked to play with the worms more than fish with them,” Lacy said.