Lawrence quakes, fracking link probedNEW CASTLE — The state Department of Environmental Protection is investigating whether fracking contributed to two small earthquakes near a Western Pennsylvania drilling operation.DEP spokesman Melanie Williams says Hilcorp Energy stopped fracking at the Mahoning Township site on about noon Monday. That was about 12 hours after the U.S. Geological Survey recorded a 1.9-magnitude earthquake and about 10 hours before another quake of the same size was recorded.Williams says Hilcorp was fracking two wells on a four-well pad about 45 miles northwest of Pittsburgh when the first quake occurred.There were no reports of property damage.

Naked suspect caught after fleeingPITTSBURGH — A Pittsburgh man has been jailed after he twice ran away from police, the second time when he escaped from a hospital while naked.Police first chased James Edward Williams, 30, when a detective in a marked car saw Williams driving a stolen car about 6:45 a.m. Wednesday. Police say Williams ditched the car, led police on a foot chase before trying to swim away in the Ohio River.He was captured when his foot got tangled in a barge’s rope and was taken to Allegheny General Hospital. That’s where he escaped and ran away naked later Wednesday. He was found hiding in a garbage container.