Officers help deliver baby along road

PITTSBURGH — Two police officers dispatched to investigate a traffic accident ended up helping to deliver a baby girl.

Alan Freeman said he was driving his wife, Laurie, to West Penn Hospital early Saturday, but he soon realized their second child wasn’t going to wait.

Spotting the Pittsburgh officers, who were investigating an unrelated minor crash, he pulled over and asked for their help.

Medics were called, but the baby wasn’t going to wait for them either. Freeman said even though the officers weren’t trained for childbirth, they didn’t hesitate to pitch in.

“One of them actually found me a blanket, sort of talked me through it and kept me calm and I caught the baby,” he said.

Seven-pound, 3-ounce Cecily Kate Freeman and her mother were reported to be resting comfortably.

Search continues for man’s body

OHIOPYLE — Volunteers and search crews are still looking for the body of a man who plunged into a river and over a waterfall last week.

Authorities in Fayette County said 20-year-old Michael Davila climbed over an observation deck railing at Ohiopyle State Park on Wednesday to have his picture taken but slipped on ice. He fell into the Youghiogheny River and went over the 20-foot Ohiopyle Falls below.

Park assistant manager Stacie Hall said searchers have focused on an area below the falls where search dogs picked up traces of the victim.

Hall said officials with the Army Corps of Engineers have lowered the water level of the river to assist in the search. The effort has been hampered by cold, rain and murky water conditions.