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WASHINGTON — Police say three women attacked several employees at a diner Friday afternoon because one of the women wanted child support from a cook who worked there.

Police say 26-year-old Tori Thomas of Washington, Pa., hit a 27-year-old man in the arm with a baseball bat, then also threw boiling hot Alfredo sauce on one of the owners of Cee Tee's Diner, 46-year-old Carla Smith. She was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital burn unit.

Police have charged Thomas and two friends, 25-year-old Summer Thomas and 24-year-old Amanda Terry with aggravated assault and other charges.

The women face a preliminary hearing Nov. 7.

PITTSBURGH — The Allegheny County medical examiner's office has released the names of two Pittsburgh teens killed in an early-morning crash that injured two other people.The dead victims are 17-year-old Mysharri Millender and 18-year-old Kahdejah Cannon-Perkins, both of Pittsburgh.Pittsburgh police haven't released details of the crash which happened about 3 a.m. Sunday.

ROSCOE — A woman has been jailed on charges she set an apartment building fire that authorities originally credited her with discovering in June.Tina Marie Koskoski, 46, of Roscoe, faces 85 counts each of causing a catastrophe and reckless endangerment, as well as four counts each of arson and simple assault, and one charge of criminal mischief in the June 22 fire.

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