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FORT HILL — A trash fire started by township supervisors burned down their municipal building, authorities said.

No one was injured in the blaze Tuesday in Addison Township, but the building used for meetings, elections and as a garage was destroyed.

The supervisors had left the trash fire unattended and "it caught some material behind the building on fire," said Bill Barlow, chief of the Addison Volunteer Fire Co.

PITTSBURGH — It took a bomb-sniffing dog to figure out that a brown paper bag left in the bathroom of a government office building was just lunch.The suspicious bag — containing a salad from a bagel shop — prompted security guards at the downtown building to evacuate the office of Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato and close a main courthouse entrance. The lockdown lasted about an hour.The bag was found in a women's bathroom on a shelf under a sink. A sheriff's deputy arrived with a bomb-sniffing dog and quickly discovered there was nothing explosive about the salad.

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