Pennsylvania gas prices continue to plunge as crude oil prices hit an 18-year low. After falling by 12 cents last week, the average price of gasoline across Western Pennsylvania is another 13 cents cheaper this week at $2.36 per gallon. That’s according to AAA East Central’s Gas Price Report. This morning on Teleforum, Frank Sparks spoke with AAA’s Jim Garrity, who was asked if he believes this trend will continue…

Garrity noted the irony in the fact that drivers aren’t even able to take advantage of these cheap gas prices because of the restrictions in travel during the coronavirus crisis…

Motorists can find current gas prices nationwide, statewide, and countywide at GasPrices.AAA.com.

Good news for Beaver County adults age 60 and over. The Beaver County Office on Aging has been awarded a grant to have an Occupational Therapist complete a home safety assessment at no cost to you. In an interview with Beaver County Radio newsman Pat Septak, Christine Namey, a therapist from Lutheran Senior Life, explained why older adults need to have their home assessed for safety…

Namey explained what the therapist looks at in the home…

Namey explained how someone would go about scheduling an appointment to have a Home Safety Assessment done in their home or apartment…

…and you can contact Lutheran SeniorLife at 724- 452-3492 to set up a date and time convenient for you. But you’re asked to schedule as soon as possible because there are only a limited amount of appointments available.

Stocks slump, despite Fed aid, as virus bill stalls again
By STAN CHOE, DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA AP Business Writers
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are ending another bumpy day broadly lower on Wall Street as investors wait to see if Democrats and Republicans can settle their differences on an economic rescue package. Major indexes ended down about 3% Monday, having been down as much as 5%. Earlier, markets got a bump following the latest announcement of support from the Federal Reserve. The Fed said it would buy as much government debt as needed to help markets operate smoothly and lend money to businesses and local governments, but the gains quickly vanished. Markets are likely to remain volatile as long as the coronavirus outbreak accelerates.

Wolf issues stay-at-home order for hardest-hit counties
By MARK SCOLFORO and MICHAEL RUBINKAM undefined
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Tom Wolf is ordering residents of Pennsylvania’s hardest-hit areas to stay home to help combat the spread of the new coronavirus that has sickened hundreds and caused six deaths statewide. He also shuttered schools statewide for an additional two weeks. Noting that Philadelphia already ordered residents to remain home, Wolf issued the stay-at-home order for the counties around the city; for Allegheny County, which includes Pittsburgh; and for Monroe County in the Pocono Mountains. Those counties account for 75% of Pennsylvania’s confirmed cases of COVID-19. Wolf has imposed progressively tougher measures as state officials say the pandemic threatens to swamp hospitals and spike the death toll.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci says he can’t jump in front of the microphone to stop President Donald Trump from speaking at daily White House briefings on the coronavirus outbreak. Fauci told Science magazine in an interview Sunday that Trump listens even though they disagree on some things. One thing they disagree on is Trump’s complaint that China should have told the world earlier about the virus. Fauci says he told the “appropriate people” after Trump made the comment that it “didn’t comport.” But Fauci says if Trump repeats he “can’t jump in front of the microphone and push him down.”

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar says her husband, John Bessler, has been hospitalized with the coronavirus. The former Democratic presidential candidate says Bessler began feeling ill while she was in Minnesota and he was in Washington, D.C. She says he quarantined himself immediately and sought the test after he coughed up blood. Klobuchar says it took five days to get him a test and said such delays are a problem the country must fix immediately. Klobuchar says her doctor has advised her not to be tested because the two have been apart more than 14 days.

The Pennsylvania State Police is assisting in the closure of non-life sustaining businesses in the state. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has more. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Airline officials say a flight from the Dominican Republic headed for Toronto had to be diverted to Pittsburgh International Airport over the weekend. They say they had to land Saturday due to a medical emergency on-board the flight. There’s no word as to what that emergency was.