Tom Davidson stories, Page 49

New Kensington council Monday hired three new police officers to fill vacancies created by retirements, city Clerk Dennis Scarpiniti said. Michael A. McSherry of Leechburg, Jerry Hobeck of New Kensington and Jeffrey Vertullo of Export were selected from a list approved last week by the city’s Civil Service Commission. They...

Water and sewer bills are going up this year for people who live in Arnold, Lower Burrell, New Kensington and portions of Plum. The 15,000 water customers of the Municipal Authority of New Kensington, which also serves Upper Burrell and parts of Allegheny and Washington townships, will see a 12...

Global pharmaceutical giant Bayer Corp. announced Tuesday it is closing its Robinson campus within the next two years. It will mean the loss of 569 jobs and 96 contractors, the company said in a statement. The news shocked Robinson officials, but the Airport Area Chamber of Commerce believed Bayer employees...

New Kensington is on the way to becoming the latest municipality in the region to require new or newly-renovated commercial buildings to install a lock box to help first-responders gain access in emergencies. City council laid the groundwork this week to enable it to pass an ordinance Feb. 4 that...

New Kensington council will be hiring three new police officers to fill vacancies created by retirements, city Clerk Dennis Scarpiniti said. Council is scheduled to vote on the hires at a special meeting at 4 p.m. Monday, once members receive an approved list from the city’s Civil Service Commission. That...

New year, new airline. That was the message officials had Wednesday when they announced a new carrier would be adding three new nonstop flights from Pittsburgh International Airport in the coming months. “It’s a perfect match,” said Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald. Via Airlines will be adding direct flights to...

Police arrested Tuesday a man suspected of robbing a Pleasant Hills bank this week. Richard D. Parrish, 40, of Jefferson Hills, allegedly confessed to robbing the bank once police tracked him down in Monongahela. Parrish is accused of robbing the Dollar Bank branch at 500 Clairton Boulevard at about 1...

A yellow steel structure has been looming 45 feet above Lawrence­ville for about three months. You can see it from the 40th Street Bridge and from Polish Hill. Sometimes secretive about its projects, Carnegie Mellon University’s National Robotics Engineering Center isn’t exactly hiding its tallest robot. The 45-foot robot has...

Four people were hurt after a crash involving a Port Authority of Allegheny County bus Tuesday morning in Lawrenceville, according to authority spokesman Adam Brandolph. Port Authority police are investigating the crash, which happened about 7:45 a.m. Tuesday at the 62nd Street Bridge and Butler Street. The bus was outbound...

Authorities are trying to identify a man who robbed the Dollar Bank branch Monday afternoon in Pleasant Hills. At about 1 p.m., a man entered the Dollar Bank branch at 500 Clairton Boulevard, handed a note to the teller demanding money and left the bank on foot with an unspecified...

Pittsburgh-based shale gas producer EQT Corp. confirmed Monday it had laid off employees but would not say how many. The company’s new management team has “taken a number of decisive actions to improve operational efficiency, cash flow and EQT’s financial position,” it said in a statement released Monday. “We are...