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PITTSBURGH — Police are investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl accidentally run over by a sport utility vehicle.

Pittsburgh police said the vehicle had stopped at a house in Stanton Heights Sunday night to drop off an occupant after a night at the movies.

Police said the girl got out to take some pictures but the vehicle was apparently out of gear and rolled over her as the driver got out.

Authorities said the SUV dragged the girl about 50 feet before striking a tree.

DILLINER — Chevron says crews have capped gas well that exploded and caught fire earlier this month, killing a worker.Officials say the well that caught fire Feb. 11 in Greene County’s Dunkard Township was capped Sunday. Crews are now working to cap an adjacent well that caught fire three days later.Monitoring at the site shows no dangerous levels of pollution in the air from leaking gas, officials said.

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