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Police: W. Pa. man picked fight with grandma’s dog

ALIQUIPPA, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man has been cited for animal cruelty and other crimes because police say he tried to pick a fight with his grandmother’s 15-year-old dog.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 21-year-old Nicholas Wooddell, of Hopewell Township, who was jailed briefly Sunday after the incident.

The Beaver County Times says the incident occurred Oct. 10 when Wooddell pounded on the woman’s door to get inside. Once there, police say Wooddell punched the dog, which was lying on the floor, and left. Police say Wooddell recently had been staying at his grandmother’s home but was asked to leave.

Wooddell does not have a listed phone. A relative’s phone could not take incoming calls when The Associated Press tried to located Wooddell for comment Monday morning.

Wanted Pa. man arrested wearing ‘inmate’ costume

DONORA, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man was wearing a jail-inmate costume when police arrested him on a weapons charge and reportedly for insulting police who came to arrest his friend on Halloween.

The Observer-Reporter of Washington, Pa., reported last week that 22-year-old Gregory Moon was still wearing the black-and-white- striped costume when he was arraigned. He was given a bright-orange jumpsuit when a district judge sent him to the Washington County Jail, where he has yet to post $250,000 bond.

Police say Moon, of Charleroi, was arrested when they answered a disturbance call at a housing project in Donora. Police say they “arrested a friend of Moon’s who purportedly fought with officers, and then nabbed Moon on a warrant for reportedly possessing a stolen gun when he reportedly yelled at police.

Kentucky bridge is free but must be set back up

FRANKFORT, Ky.

Kentucky transportation officials are offering a bridge to any taker who will preserve it.

The three-span steel truss bridge over the Kentucky River in the state’s southeastern corner would be free and is available after a new bridge is completed next year to carry Ky. 80.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet would even pay for taking down the 82-year-old, 456-foot bridge and hauling it to the new owner’s location.

The catch is that whoever takes it has to set it back up in its original form and maintain it.

The department says the bridge would be a good entrance to a walking trail or could go to a private owner who just happened to need a good bridge that’s too narrow for state specifications.

Associated Press