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PITTSBURGH — Officials say weekly flights will soon begin bringing cargo from Asia to Western Pennsylvania.

Allegheny County says New York-based Wings Logistics will use a Boeing 747 for flights to Pittsburgh International Airport. Most flights will come from Hong Kong and will carry dresses, T-shirts, jeans and other apparel. The flights will be once a week on average beginning Sunday night through at least August.

Bradley Penrod, executive director of the airport authority, says test flights indicated that it took only 30 hours to get cargo from takeoff to Pittsburgh and then to distribution centers, as opposed to six days flying into congested New York or Chicago.

WILKES-BARRE — A circus elephant that kicked a handler before a show, killing him, did so accidentally, a coroner said Saturday.Andrew Anderton, 48, died from multiple traumatic injuries after he was struck Friday afternoon at the Irem Shrine Circus in Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County coroner John Corcoran said after an autopsy was performed.The death of Anderton, whose last residence was in Florida, was ruled "positively an accident," he said."The animal, I guess, was moving around ... and the handler, I think, came in from behind him, and the elephant didn't realize he was there and knocked him down," Corcoran said.The handler had been with the animal for several years and even slept in the same area with it, he said.Police said the elephant was confined after the death and did not participate in Friday night's performance at the 109th Armory, which went on after a moment of silence for the handler. Circus spokesman John Richards said he knew of no other problems with the elephant.The Irem Shrine Circus began in 1949, and about 30,000 people were expected to attend the 13 scheduled shows in Wilkes-Barre.

CHESWICK — Authorities have identified two men killed when their 16-foot fishing boat overturned near a river dam.Officials say the bodies of 59-year-old Gary Watson and 26-year-old Brian Abercrombie were found in the water about an hour after the boat capsized in the Allegheny River near Lock No. 3 in Harmar Township at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Another man who swam to shore was hospitalized with a cut on his head.Officer Ron Evancho of the Fish and Boat Commission says the boat likely capsized because of turbulence at the base of the dam.The Army Corps of Engineers is also investigating. Spokesman Jeff Hawk says lock operators are supposed to sound a horn if a boat gets too close, but he does not know whether that was done.

HARRISBURG — A station wagon crashed into a guardrail and went down an embankment, killing three young children, state police said Sunday.A 57-year-old Duncannon woman was driving the car east on Route 322 in Dauphin County's Middle Paxton Township when "for unknown reasons" it veered out of the lane and hit the rail just after 10 p.m. Saturday, police said. The car then went over the rail, hit a guide wire, went airborne and hit a tree before going down the 50-foot embankment, they said.Dauphin County Deputy Coroner Lynn Choborda pronounced dead a 5-year-old boy and a 3-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl believed to be twins. Their names weren't immediately released.The driver was taken to Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, where she was listed in serious condition on Sunday. The cause of the accident is under investigation, police in Harrisburg said.

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