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PITTSBURGH — Authorities suspect an elderly suburban Pittsburgh couple found dead in their home died of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The couple were found in their Scott Township home on Monday by a neighbor who noticed their trash wasn't put out and their Sunday paper wasn't picked up. Authorities say 91-one-year old Clarence E. Hall was found in the kitchen and 80-year-old Ruth Hall was found in an upstairs bedroom.

Medical examiners say keys were found in the ignition of a car in the garage. Police said the car had apparently been left on by accident.

PHILADELPHIA — A judge convicted a longshoreman of killing 189 seagulls that were roosting at a marine terminal and fined him the minimum $14,175 — or $75 per bird.Daniel Gallagher, the president of an International Longshoremen's Union local, was also ordered Monday to pay $5,000 in restitution for a company-owned pickup truck that was totaled when he plowed through the birds and crashed into a trailer chassis.Gallagher had previously testified that he was talking on a walkie-talkie and trying to grab a spilling coffee cup when the gulls flew up in front of his windshield in February 2006.But Assistant District Attorney Bill James said Gallagher "went out of his way" to drive through the flock at Packer Marine Terminal. He also showed a videotape of a 200-foot path of dead birds.

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