HARRISBURG — The attorney general's office fired back Tuesday at a lawsuit brought by the man Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf removed last month as executive director of the state Office of Open Records, saying he served at the governor's pleasure.

The lawyers filed several documents responding to the lawsuit by Erik Arneson and the Senate Republican caucus that challenges Arneson's firing from the agency that hears appeals under the state Right-to-Know Law.

Arneson's appointment was among Republican Gov. Tom Corbett's final acts in office. Wolf moved to cancel it shortly after being sworn in Jan. 20. The open-records director does not require Senate confirmation.

“Gov. Wolf acted within his constitutional authority when he removed Arneson from his job,” the lawyers wrote. “Petitioners have failed to establish that they are entitled to any relief.”

TITUSVILLE — Workers at a northwestern Pennsylvania elementary school have called in an exterminator and were scrubbing down restrooms after bed bugs were found there last week.Titusville Area School District Superintendent Karen Jez said that a pest control company was at the Main Street Elementary School on Monday night. Maintenance crews were to be cleaned Tuesday morning before students arrived.The exterminator will be back in 10 days to make sure the bugs are gone.

PERRYOPOLIS — The owner of 84 Lumber Co. is buying and renovating a home for the widow and 16-month-old son of a Western Pennsylvania police officer killed in a crash in December.Maggie Hardy Magerko said she felt moved to buy the home because the widow, Dawn Champion, and her husband, Richard, were military veterans before he died Dec. 14 while an officer in Perryopolis.Champion was just 35 when he began driving after a suspected speeder and collided with another vehicle that turned left in front of him. That driver died of his injuries 12 days later.