PITTSBURGH — A small Western Pennsylvania town will pay $100,000 to a man who says police shocked him with a Taser while he slept in his home.

The officers were responding to a silent alarm that went off in Shawn Hicks' home in North Braddock at 2:45 a.m. in July 2007. Hicks says he was woken from sleep by a Taser shock. He says that even after explaining to police that he lived in the house and presented identification, they shocked him twice more.

In January, Hicks filed a lawsuit against borough officials.

The borough and its insurance carrier agreed on Friday to pay Hicks $100,000.

NEW CASTLE — Police are looking for a mysterious woman who abandoned a 4-month-old baby on a porch, saying she no longer wanted him.The baby is now in the care of Lawrence County Children and Youth Services after he was discovered by a homeowner in Union Township who said the woman called him and said the baby was on his front porch.Vern Fitzpatrick says he initially thought the phone call was a hoax, but when he opened the front door the baby was in a car seat crying. He says he does not know why the woman chose to leave the baby on his porch.Police say the baby is doing well and is in good health. They do not know why he was abandoned.

PITTSBURGH — A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting her infant from her womb was ordered to stand trial Friday after a detective recounted her bizarre explanation of how she wound up with another woman's child.Prosecutors contend Andrea Curry-Demus, 39, met a pregnant Kia Johnson at the Allegheny County Jail last month while each were visiting other inmates and then somehow lured the 18-year-old to her apartment to steal the baby from her womb.Curry-Demus was held on homicide, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal conspiracy counts.According to court records, Curry-Demus pleaded guilty to aggravated assault, kidnapping, concealment of the whereabouts of a child and related offenses for several 1990 cases. She was imprisoned and released in August 1998.