WASHINGTON (AP) — Elizabeth Warren says she’ll create a federal task force to investigate corruption during the Trump administration if she’s elected president. The Massachusetts senator on Tuesday released a plan that her campaign says will “restore integrity and competence” to government after President Donald Trump. Warren says the task force would be within the Justice Department and would hold the previous administration’s officials “accountable for illegal activity.” All top Democratic presidential hopefuls have decried corruption in the Trump administration. Warren’s proposal seeks to provide a blueprint for how to roll back Trump’s influence. Trump campaigned on a promise to “drain the swamp“ and claims he’s been successful in doing so.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) – Four young climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, have told the elites at the World Economic Forum they are not doing enough to deal with the climate emergency. Speaking at a panel in the Swiss ski resort of Davos, the four laid out their hopes that their generation has found its voice and has the energy to work with those in power to bring about change. Thunberg spoke just as U.S. President Donald Trump was arriving in Davos, where he later gave a speech. Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris accord to limit climate change and has traded barbs with Thunberg on social media.

DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — American economist Kenneth Rogoff noted that President Donald Trump largely avoided talking about his administration’s approach to climate change in his speech at the World Economic Forum because it was a sensitive topic. Rogoff said “he would have been booed if he said anything much about this. Rogoff said Trump “was being very careful not to get booed.” Rogoff also said some of Trump’s statements regarding the strength of the U.S. economy were true. He said the economy had largely done better than expected.

Absentee ballots in Beaver County will soon require the voter to supply the return postage. In years past, the county has absorbed the cost of the return stamp, even though it isn’t required by law. That can lead to a cost of about 20-grand in return postage alone during a presidential election year. County officials say they were one of only a few counties statewide that provided the return envelope postage paid.

UPDATE: A 15-year-old Moon Township boy sustained multiple gunshot wounds during a robbery at the Linmar Terrace apartment complex in Aliquippa on Monday afternoon. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

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Two Beaver County School Districts have been awarded grants by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has details. Click on ‘play’ to hear Sandy’s report…

Danny DeVito has announced that he is running for the Pennsylvania State House. No, not that Danny DeVito, the Hollywood actor. This Danny DeVito is actually a 27-year-old law clerk and claims he was forced to become a fan of the actor in terms of being able to recognize the jokes that people throw at him…although he’s not a fan of his politics. Law Clerk Danny DeVito is a staunch Republican and wants to be the next representative in the 45th District of the Pennsylvania State House. He plans to fight Mayor Bill Peduto’s desire to restrict any further Shale Gas development in the region and Governor Tom Wolf’s push for a severance tax on the Shale industry. He is seeking to oust Democratic State Representative Anita Kulik.

Organizers say a gun buyback Monday in Pittsburgh was so successful, they ran out of money in less than an hour. The program held on Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior day at Holy Cross Episcopal Church was offering 100-dollars per gun turned in, no questions asked. Church officials say 40-minutes later, they had paid out over five-thousand-dollars. They say they will hold a similar event soon to buy back even more guns.

State lawmakers are planning to take up a number of bills that focus on human trafficking this week. Among the proposals is a bill that would aim to protect victims from having their past used against them in court. Other bills would require incarcerated sex offenders to attend counseling and therapy, as well as increase penalties for trafficking. January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month in Pennsylvania.

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A defense attorney says he expects to appeal the murder conviction of a Westmoreland County man who asserted that his now-deceased twin brother was the shooter. Jurors in Greensburg deliberated for about two hours Friday before convicting 30-year-old Darrelle Tolbert-McGhee of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Michael Wilson. McGhee had asserted that he was in Florida at the time of the April 2017 slaying in downtown Jeannette. He said the shooter was his twin brother, Dwayne, who was killed in a shooting 13 months later in Wilkinsburg. Prosecutors said the shooter’s identity wasn’t in question.