Severed horse head found in Pa. city alley

(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON, Pa. - Officials in a small southwest Pennsylvania city are investigating the gruesome discovery of a severed horse head.

The animal's remains were found Monday in an alley in a densely populated neighborhood of Washington, Pa.

Councilman Matt Staniszewski says the decomposing head had been reduced to mostly bone but called the smell "unbearable."

Officials disposed of the remains.

The city of about 15,000 people is about 20 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.