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Three suspects are at large after taking boxes containing cellphones and watches, Petaluma police said.

Three men are sought in the robbery of a UPS driver Friday morning outside a Petaluma Verizon store, police said. The UPS driver stopped to make a delivery to Verizon at 401 Kenilworth Drive and at 10:48 a.m. as he was unloading packages from the truck, two men “pushed and grabbed several boxes off his hand truck,” according to a statement from the Petaluma Police Department.

The two robbers got into a Silver Hyundai SUV with new dealer plates, driven by a third suspect, police said.

UPS officials on Thursday said they will “vigorously defend” the company against a Charlotte area worker’s claim in a lawsuit that he faced a demotion or termination after developing a brain condition.

In a statement to The Charlotte Observer, a UPS spokesman said the worker “is not providing all of the relevant facts regarding his case. UPS went above and beyond what is normally required by the (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990), and will vigorously defend our actions.”

Patrick Amanuel of Monroe said in his federal lawsuit that he had recently been promoted to full-time automotive maintenance supervisor in summer 2017 when he told company officials he was having trouble memorizing the UPS preventative maintenance inspection manual. The company requires workers to memorize the manual, he said.

Police say a 26-year-old UPS driver was shot while making a delivery in South Fulton County on Wednesday afternoon.

Police said the shooting happened on Umatilla Lane around 4 p.m. The victim was rushed to the hospital.

The victim’s identity has not been released. Police said the victim is stable.

The shipper’s new drone subsidiary, Flight Forward, will focus on urgent-need deliveries, starting with hospital lab tests.

UPS is getting much more serious about drone deliveries — though not quite yet to your home.

The shipping company on Tuesday said it created a new subsidiary called UPS Flight Forward to build up its young drones operations. The subsidiary is the culmination of four years of drones testing at the company, which included the development of a UPS truck outfitted with a drone launchpad and the funding of a blood-delivery service via drones in remote parts of Rwanda.

“We’ve done the testing, we’ve done the prototyping and now it’s time to make it operational,” Bala Ganesh, vice president of the UPS advanced technology group, said in an interview.

UPS CEO David Abney said global businesses are facing ‘prolonged trade uncertainty’ in Europe and China

As the U.S and China prepare for fresh trade talks, comments made by United Parcel Service Inc. management suggest investors shouldn’t be so quick to buy into the hype, as the negative effect of trade wars, including a separate standoff with the European Union, appear to be “growing.”

Meanwhile, UPS’s stock UPS, +8.55%  soared toward its biggest one-day gain in over a decade after the package delivery giant reported second-quarter profit and revenue beats, as its next-day air business took business away from its rivals’ two-day service.