A man from western Pennsylvania is accused of hitting his neighbor with a weed-whacker.

Sixty-seven-year-old Gary Wright, of Southwest Greensburg, is charged with simple assault, recklessly endangerment and disorderly conduct.

Police say neighbor William Bell told Wright to get off his property on May 23 and Wright hit him in the arm with the tool. Bell’s wife says the weed-whacker going full-speed and Bell put his hand up to stop it from hitting his face.

Police say Wright told them that he wasn’t on Bell’s property and that Bell had kicked and tried to grab the weed-whacker.

He’s been ordered to stay away from the neighborhood until his Aug. 7 preliminary hearing and is living about 15 miles away.

— When gas prices hit $4 a gallon, the staff at Dr. Keith Leonard’s dental office in Arlington, Wash., figured it was time to pony up.

Since more than half of the dental assistants and office staff own horses, on Wednesday the crew saddled up and rode in to work.

“We decided that when gas got to $4 a gallon, we would all ride in,” Leonard said.

Ten riders and two bicyclists met up at Leonard’s home about four miles north of his office near this town north of Everett for the commute. The city granted them a special permit to ride as a group.

“We can’t dictate how much oil companies charge, but today we’re not buying,” Leonard said. “We’re using one-horse power.”

Leonard said the ride was a way to encourage his patients to use alternative forms of transportation.

­— A man being sought by police in Bridgeport, Conn. for questioning in a series of traffic accidents was arrested after crashing his truck in a state police garage in Connecticut.

The 36-year-old man faces charges including criminal trespass, reckless endangerment and possession of drug paraphernalia.