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NEVILLE ISLAND — Officials at a Pittsburgh-area recycling center say they’re still investigating a fire that damaged the facility.
No injuries have been reported in the fire at Neville Recycling on Neville Island, just east of the city on the Ohio River.
The fire was reported about 4:30 a.m. and was reportedly started in a building that housed paper products.
Burglars set fire to storage unitsNEW CASTLE — Police are trying to figure out why burglars broke into a rental storage facility and then set the contents of several units on fire in Western Pennsylvania.Police and fire crews in Union Township, near New Castle, say someone cut through a chain-link fence to enter the Convenient Storage Unit Facility.Fire crews had to use power saws to cut through the locked doors of several units so they could extinguish fires set in the various rental units.
Vehicular homicide trial ready to startPITTSBURGH — A suburban Pittsburgh man is set to go on trial in the death of a woman fatally struck while she pushed her two young children in a jogging stroller.Twenty-one-year-old Benjamin Cope’s vehicular homicide trial is scheduled to begin today.Police say Cope was high on marijuana when he ran a stop sign and struck 36-year-old Lisa Clay Styles in Mount Lebanon last summer.Styles died a day after being struck while pushing her 1- and 3-year-old children while taking a run. Neither child was hurt.
