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.

SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. (AP) — State police say a woman armed with a handgun was shot and wounded by state troopers following a domestic dispute in Lawrence County. Police say troopers responded Monday in Slippery Rock Township and fired after she refused to drop the weapon, striking her once. She was taken to a hospital. The troopers weren’t injured. Police said 55-year-old Maria Carmen Rozzi of New Castle would face charges of aggravated and simple assault, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and harassment.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR TUESDAY, JANUARY 21ST, 2020

TODAY – SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS MIXED. HIGH NEAR 30.

TONIGHT – MOSTLY CLEAR. LOW – 15.

WEDNESDAY – MOSTLY SUNNY. HIGH NEAR 40.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team is asserting that he did “absolutely nothing wrong” and calling the impeachment case “flimsy” and a “dangerous perversion of the Constitution.” The brief from Trump’s lawyers was filed before arguments expected this week in the Senate impeachment trial. It offered the most detailed glimpse of the defense they intend to use against Democratic efforts to convict the president and oust him from office. It is meant as a counter to a brief filed by House Democrats that summarized weeks of testimony from more than a dozen witnesses in laying out the impeachment case.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Thousands of gun-rights activists and other groups are crowding the streets around Virginia’s Capitol to protest plans by the state’s Democratic leadership to pass gun-control legislation. Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam declared a temporary state of emergency days ahead of Monday’s rally and banned weapons from the area in front of the Capitol building. Protesters said they weathered chilly temperatures to show legislators in Richmond there was strong opposition to their plans. They chanted in support of President Donald Trump, who in turn tweeted support for their goals. Officials feared fringe groups could use the rally to stir up violence and chaos reminiscent of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Democratic presidential contenders are celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and his legacy in South Carolina, Iowa and elsewhere. In Columbia, the field’s major contenders linked arms with each other and civil rights leaders in a crowd of thousands marching to the South Carolina Statehouse. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren put aside their frosty relationship of recent days and shook hands at a church service joined by other rivals, too. South Carolina’s first-in-the-South primary is a crucial proving ground for a candidate’s mettle with black voters. The state’s showcase holiday celebration, Columbia’s King Day at the Dome, is a notable event for Democratic politicians.

LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry says he’s taking a “leap of faith’’ as he steps back from royal duties in an attempt to build a more peaceful life — one free of the journalists who have filmed, photographed and written about him since the day he was born. But it’s not likely to play out that way. Global fame will follow Harry and his TV star wife, Meghan, even as they decamp to the seemingly more benign environment of Canada. Royal expert Pauline Maclaran says that if they believe the media will leave them alone, they aren’t being realistic.