Police are investigating after a young boy was hit by a car in New Brighton last night. It happened in front of the Family Dollar Store in the 12-hundred block of 5th Avenue in the borough. The victim was life-flighted to a Pittsburgh hospital. No word on the boy’s name or condition.

An abandoned roller rink has been sold to a North Sewickley Township resident. The Homewood roller rink sits abandoned on Route 18 in Big Beaver. Keith Hofmeier recently purchased the building for 95-hundred dollars and says he hopes to sell the property. If that doesn’t happen, he may make the site another location for his storage business.

Authorities say a convicted felon was arrested over the weekend after he carried a semi-automatic handgun and a box of ammunition into a Center Township movie theater. According to Center Township Police Chief Barry Kramer , officers saw a man walking around the Cinemark Center Township Marketplace lobby wearing long-sleeved Army gear with a large backpack in 94-degree weather. Chief Kramer told Mike Romigh on Teleforum this morning that the man initially gave a false I-D but was eventually identified as 21-year-old William Gossett. He was found with a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun that was found to be stolen from Ohio and a box of ammunition. He was taken to jail. Gossett told police that he was there to watch “The Purge”. “The Purge: Election Year” is the third installment in a series of films about a day on which all crime is legal for a 12-hour period once per year.

Beaver County has received a payment from Shell Chemicals. Shell paid the county $356,000 in lieu of taxes as part of an agreement that was made in 2012. The payment was for years 2014 thru 2016 and was received July 1. The money was not part of the county budget according to budget director Ricardo Luckow and will help the county’s cash crunch.

Yesterday, Governor Tom Wolf hosted a roundtable discussion on how to maximize Shell’s influence in Western Pennsylvania at Penn State Beaver. Wolf met with county government, educational and business leaders focusing on how the county is preparing for the plant and what support Harrisburg could offer. Shell officially announced it will build a cracker plant  in Potter Township on June 9th.

Governor Tom Wolf announced yesterday that Amazon plans to expand in the state and eventually create five thousand new jobs. Wolf says the online retailer will put fulfillment and distribution centers at new locations throughout Pennsylvania with the first in Northampton County.

Former state treasurer Barbara Hafer is charged with lying to federal agents about seven hundred thousand dollars in consulting fees. Hafer, who was also an Allegheny County Commissioner, is accused of concealing from investigators the consulting fees.