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BELLEVUE — A culinary student killed in an apartment building fire has been identified as 22-year-old Mehran Nemon of South Plainfield, N.J.

Investigators say they are awaiting toxicology results before determining the cause of the Pittsburgh Culinary Institute student's death.

Nemon died at Allegheny General Hospital after Friday's early morning fire at the Bellevue Mansions complex.

PITTSBURGH — A judge has dismissed portions of a lawsuit filed over the death of a dementia patient who wandered onto the roof of a hospital last winter.However the judge declined the hospital's request to dismiss the suit entirely.Relatives have accused UPMC Montefiore of negligence and trying to cover up the Dec. 3 death of 89-year-old Rose Lee Diggs.

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