MISSING 5-YEAR-OLD
PITTSBURGH (AP) – Pittsburgh police have been looking for a woman they say has kidnapped her three children from a foster home where they had been staying.
Police say 33-year-old Toy Nixon-McCray went to the residence about 2 p.m. Sunday and left with her three daughters, ages 14 and 5 years old, and their 6-month-old sister.
TOY NIXON-MCCRAY
Investigators say she left with the girls in a green sport-utility vehicle that might have been used as a jitney.
The city’s Missing Persons Unit is leading the investigation.
MISSING 6-MONTH-OLD
There are no photos available of the 14-year-old
District attorney to review case of girl killed by pit bull
WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. (AP) – A district attorney will review the case of a 2-year-old girl who was fatally mauled by a family’s pit bull in a Pittsburgh suburb.
Allegheny County police and the medical examiner’s office say the dog attacked Taylynn Devaughn inside a home in West Mifflin at around 8:45 p.m. Sunday.
The girl was pronounced dead at Jefferson Memorial Hospital.
Police say the girl lived in nearby Forest Hills and was visiting when attacked. They haven’t said whether the girl was related to or friends with the people who owned the dog.
The dog is being quarantined for at least 10 days. It isn’t immediately clear what will happen after that.
County Lt. Andrew Schurman says a district attorney will determine whether charges are warranted.
An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.
2 bodies found in rural western Pennsylvania woods
DISTANT, Pa. (AP) – Police are investigating after a man and woman were found dead in the snow in rural Western Pennsylvania.
Police say a family member found 61-year-old Linda Darlene Cook and 64-year-old Kenneth Leroy Steffey outside their home Sunday afternoon in Distant.
Police say their bodies were mostly covered in snow.
Autopsies are scheduled for Monday. The investigation is continuing.
Distant is about 60 miles northeast of Pittsburgh in Armstrong County.
State police seek suspect who cut tails, manes from horses
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) – State police have been searching for a suspect who cut the manes and tails from three horses at a western Pennsylvania horse complex.
Cortney Shipley manages the barn and trains horses at the Henderson Equestrian Complex in Jefferson Township, Butler County. That’s about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.
She tells the Butler Eagle (http://bit.ly/1FjfJwN ) that horse hair is used to make jewelry and tail and main extensions for show horses. The hair can even be used to make brushes, violin bows, hat bands and wigs.
Shipley believes the horse barber struck during the lunch hour on Wednesday, when the horses would have been unattended in an open field along a road.
Shipley says it takes years for horses to grow back their manes and tails.
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Information from: Butler Eagle, http://www.butlereagle.com