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PITTSBURGH — The insurer of a trucking company whose tanker leaked sticky black goo onto the Pennsylvania Turnpike in November said in court filings that its $1 million policy likely won’t be enough to cover roughly 1,000 claims for damaged vehicles.

The Travelers Indemnity Co. has deposited $1 million into a bank account overseen by a federal judge in Pittsburgh to satisfy its policy covering MTS Transport. The Stevensville, Md. company owned the tanker truck that leaked the asphalt flux material over about 40 miles of the eastbound toll road in Western Pennsylvania on Nov. 22. The goo damaged tires and, in some cases, the engines and other parts of cars that drove through it.

MTS Transport is suing another insurer, seeking $4 million more to cover the damage.

Cathedral aligns with EpiscopaliansPITTSBURGH — The governing board of the Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh has voted to affiliate with the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh more than three years after a majority of parishes left to form the more conservative Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.The board voted 11-7 last week to align solely with the Episcopalians, ending an agreement under which the cathedral was affiliated with both dioceses. That agreement had been in place since the Anglican parishes broke away from the Episcopal diocese in 2008 over differences including the authority of the Bible and the Episcopal church’s ordination of gay clergy.The Episcopal diocese has about 9,000 members in 29 parishes. The Anglicans have about 20,000 members in 74 congregations.The governing board and the cathedral’s congregation approved a resolution in October 2008 to let the cathedral continue to represent both groups, but congregation officials said the dual affiliation was making it difficult to grow.The Anglican diocese said in a statement that the vote wasn’t proper.

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