PITTSBURGH — Authorities say two eighth-grade girls who stuck their heads out of a school bus were hit by a pole or sign.

Pittsburgh Public Schools spokesman Ebony Pugh says the accident happened about 4 p.m. Wednesday as the bus was pulling out of the Barack Obama Academy of International Studies in East Liberty.

Pugh says the age of the unidentified girls and their injuries aren't known yet. Paramedics took one girl to Children's Hospital in Lawrenceville and a teacher drove the second girl there.

SAYLORSBURG — A contractor has been hired to clean up the northeastern Pennsylvania land formerly owned by a man accused of killing three people at a municipal meeting following a long-running dispute over the property.Supervisors in Ross Township, in the Pocono Mountains, voted Monday night to hire Papillon Contracting for the job on the property formerly owned by Rockne Newell.Newell, 60, lost the debris-strewn property after a long legal battle with the township, which said it acted on complaints he lived in a storage shed, built an illegal culvert and used a bucket outside as a toilet.Days after the township bought the property at a sheriff's sale, Newell fired dozens of rounds of gunshots at an August meeting of supervisors, killing two residents and the township zoning officer, authorities allege. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.The company will demolish two buildings, remove all debris and remove the culvert pipe that served as a driveway.