[naviga:h3]Transit agency pays $450K to settle suit[/naviga:h3]

PITTSBURGH — The Pittsburgh area’s transit agency is agreeing to pay $450,000 to settle claims that one of its buses fatally ran over a man in a motorized wheelchair and his wife.

The Port Authority of Allegheny County board on Friday voted to approve the settlement.

Henry Walker, 73, was hit by another vehicle and knocked beneath the bus in October. Walker’s wife, 68-year-old Carol Williamson, had just gotten off the bus with him and died after she tried to pull him to safety but was also run over.

It was not immediately clear where the lawsuit was filed, though the board’s resolution to settle indicates other defendants have also been sued.

[naviga:h3]Geneva to christen new president[/naviga:h3]

BEAVER FALLS — Geneva College is set to christen an alumnus and communications professor as the school’s 20th president.

Calvin Troup, 55, will be inaugurated Friday as president at Geneva, a private, Christian school in Beaver Falls, about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.

Troup has taught at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh for the last 20 years and taught at Penn State and Indiana University prior to that.

Troup graduated from Blackhawk High School before attending Geneva, where he graduated in 1983. He later earned a doctorate in speech communication from Penn State.