Car fire burns house

Car fire burns house

YOUNGSTOWN

A fire that started in a car parked at 411 W. Myrtle Ave. spread to the house there, the Youngstown Fire Department says.

The car engine caught fire, and the flames spread to the vinyl-sided house four feet away. They raced up the side of the house and caught the roof, the department said.

The tenant there told the department she had just parked her car and gone into the house, and when she looked outside she saw the fire.

She said her car seemed fine, but she had recently had some work done on it, the fire department said.

There were no injuries.

The department set damage estimates at $10,000 for the house to replace the roof and $5,000 for the car.

Self-inflicted shooting

EDINBURG pa.

Family members found the body of a man who had been missing since 5 p.m. Monday.

State Police said James Michael Mallary, 51, of Halltown Road in Wampum, became despondent and left his home with a loaded rifle.

Pennsylvania State Police searched by helicopter, and several local fire departments also searched for Mallary until it got dark. Family members found Mallary at 8:50 p.m. Tuesday in woods near state Route 18 in North Beaver Township, about a half-mile away from Halltown Road. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.