PITTSBURGH
State police in Pittsburgh say a man who was found dead in his vehicle Sunday on a highway off-ramp apparently bled to death from a surgical incision. John Yuhas, 34, of Emsworth was discovered earlier that day slumped over in his vehicle along Interstate 279.
Police said he'd recently told someone an incision on his arm from surgery was bleeding and needed to be repaired.
Authorities say a woman died in a three-alarm fire in a Pittsburgh home over the weekend.Officials said fire crews were called to Shadyside at about 5 a.m. Sunday.Neighbors said a 65-year-old woman had lived in the converted three-story brick house for at least four decades. The Allegheny County medical examiner's office said it would take several days to confirm the victim's identity.Mike Rohach, who lived downstairs, said he rushed upstairs to try to rescue her but was driven back by smoke and flames. The cause of the blaze is under investigation.
Officials say air quality around Pittsburgh met federal standards for fine soot pollution for the first time in 2013.Allegheny County Health Director Dr. Karen Hacker said that the news marks “a huge leap forward” in efforts to improve air quality. All eight monitoring sites in the county met standards for fine particulate pollution, which can come from coal-fired power plants, autos and trucks, and plants that produce coke for steel mills.
