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WEST MIFFLIN — Kennywood amusement park's King Kahuna ride remains closed while park workers try to figure out why it malfunctioned Saturday, stranding about 20 riders upside-down for 10 minutes.

The ride malfunctioned at around 9:25 p.m. causing the riders to be stuck about 10 feet off the ground about five feet from the ride's platform station.

The ride features a bed of 40 seats suspended between two pendulum-like arms. The arms rotate and lift the seating area up to 40 feet high, while the seat rotates as riders spin forward or backward 360 degrees. Riders are held in place by over-the-shoulder harnesses.

A park spokesman said nobody was seriously hurt though one rider complained of neck and back pain.

PITTSBURGH — The next budget cut on tap in the city of Pittsburgh may come out of the tap.The city is studying whether to do away with bottled water coolers to save money.The city spent more than $26,600 to buy five-gallon bottles of Crystal Springs water in the past year.Mayoral spokeswoman Joanna Doven said the 91-year-old City-County Building's tap water tastes bad and comes out of the tap in "different colors." That's why the city buys bottled water.But the city is studying whether there's a cheaper way give employees safer drinking water. The city pays about 12 cents for five gallons of tap water, but about $7.75 for the same amount of bottled water.

WILKINSBURG — A mosquito sample from the Pittsburgh suburb of Wilkinsburg is the first to test positive for the West Nile virus in Allegheny County this year.The Allegheny County Health Department said it is spraying pesticides in storm water catch basins in Wilkinsburg and other areas with standing water where mosquitoes are likely to breed. The agency is also setting mosquito traps to improve surveillance of the virus.The virus can be transmitted to humans by mosquito bites.The health department says the virus also infects birds. But, so far, there are no reported cased of humans or birds infected this year.Last year, one person was found with the virus in the county.

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