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GREENSBURG — A Greensburg man has been charged with selling a tiger skin to an undercover agent.

Barry McMaster of Greensburg, who runs the Exotic & Unique Gifts shop, was paid $8,500 by an undercover U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agent for a tiger skin in December 2004, according to court papers.

His son, Kevin McMaster, was sentenced in April 2006 to 25 months in prison for selling or offering to sell more than $200,000 worth of gorilla skulls and the skins of a tiger, snow leopard and jaguar through his Internet business.

PITTSBURGH — A 13-month-old girl was left alone overnight for about 10 hours in a car with the windows and sun roof open while a violent storm raged, police said.Police charged the child's mother, Brandi Morgan, 25, of Pittsburgh, after authorities said a passer-by on Wednesday morning found the rain-soaked girl.The child was in a car seat in the back of the car parked in the city's Homewood neighborhood, police said. Officers found Morgan in an apartment across the street."At first, she apparently forgot she had a child because she denied it, but when we asked about the baby in the car, she said she was working," Cmdr. RaShall Brackney said.Brackney said Morgan could not explain where she had been. The baby was treated for exposure and placed in the custody of the family services.Morgan was arraigned on charges of reckless endangerment, child endangerment, leaving a child unattended in a vehicle and resisting arrest.

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