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General Motors (GM) has created a fund to compensate victims who have either died or were seriously injured due to the faulty design of the ignition switch in certain GM vehicles. So far, 30 death claims have been accepted in connection with the faulty ignition switch recall. The total number of claims the program has received is 1,580. These claims include 192 death claims, 102 "Category One" injury claims and 1,286 "Category Two" injury claims. A "Category...

The McKeesport community is mourning the loss of a family that was killed on Saturday morning by a fire in their home. Two adults and four children died of smoke inhalation. The cause of the fire is still under investigation. The victims of the fire were a mother, her four children and her father-in-law. The mother's husband was able to escape the fire but was severely burned. He was hospitalized and remains in critical condition. The Allegheny County's...