Woman blames parrot for car crash

UNIONTOWN — State police say a woman blames her coffee-drinking pet parrot for distracting her moments before she crashed her car into a guardrail in Pennsylvania.

Troopers from Uniontown say the woman, 35, was driving on a South Union Township road just before 5 p.m. Tuesday when she noticed the bird pecking at the lid of her coffee cup. The woman says she struck the guardrail when she glanced down to see what the bird was doing.

The woman told police that the bird likes to drink coffee — and they also found bird seed in a cup holder next to the coffee and a few feathers nearby.

Seedlings will be planted at memorial

SHANKSVILLE — Hundreds of volunteers are joining state forestry officials in a massive tree-planting project at the Flight 93 National Memorial.

About 22,000 seedlings will be planted today and Saturday, according to the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

United Flight 93 crashed in an abandoned strip mine in Shanksville after being hijacked by four terrorists on 9-11.

By The Associated Press