VETERAN SPORTS WRITER JOHN MEHNO OF BADEN DIED LATE LAST WEEK. BEAVER COUNTY RADIO’S GREG BENEDETTI HAS MORE ON THE STORY. Click on ‘play’ to hear Greg’s report…

A man has been arrested in a fatal shooting in New Castle. According to the Lawrence County deputy coroner, 33-year old Joseph Kelosky died from multiple gunshots wounds. Kelosky was reportedly shot in the face in New Castle early Saturday morning. The shooting was reported at approximately 2:15 a.m. in the parking lot of Double D Cafe on East Washington Street. New Castle Police Department Detectives identified and arrested the suspect, 29-year-old David Williams. He is currently in the Lawrence County Jail. Police say a second victim was also shot, she had a gunshot wound in the leg and was taken to a nearby hospital.

Two people were killed and four others, including children, were injured in a head-on crash on the Pennsylvania Turnpike late Saturday night. State police say 76-year-old William Paxton, of Pittsburgh, was driving eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the westbound lanes when he slammed head-on into a car driven by 36-year-old Andrew Sworan, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. The accident happened at the 8 mile marker just across the state line. Paxton and Sworan both died at the scene. Paxton’s wife was taken to a Pittsburgh hospital with suspected serious injuries. A 40-year-old woman in Sworan’s vehicle was hospitalized with possible injuries, along with a 4-year-old boy. A 5-year-old girl was not injured. Authorities say Paxton had traveled on the wrong side of the highway for eight miles before the accident happened. State police are trying to determine why. The highway remained closed in the westbound direction for approximately four hours before reopening early Sunday morning.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR MONDAY, MARCH 18TH, 2019

TODAY – MOSTLY CLOUDY. HIGH – 43.

TONIGHT – SOME CLOUDS THIS EVENING WILL GIVE WAY
TO MAINLY CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT. LOW – 25.

TUESDAY – PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH – 47.

Gillibrand in 2020 Democratic race as full-fledged candidate
By JUANA SUMMERS Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand formally joined the 2020 White House race on Sunday and previewed the hard line she will take against President Donald Trump by announcing a rally outside one of his signature Manhattan properties.
She had spent more than a month traveling around the country to gauge support for a run.
Her announcement that she was joining the dozen-plus candidates who want to challenge Trump came in a nearly three-minute video produced by her campaign and released early in the morning. She says the national anthem poses this question: “Will brave win?”
“Well, it hasn’t always, and it isn’t right now,” she says. “Brave doesn’t pit people against each other. Brave doesn’t put money over lives. Brave doesn’t spread hate. Cloud truth. Build a wall. That’s what fear does.”
In the video, Gillibrand says that the country needs a leader who “makes bold, brave choices” and “someone who isn’t afraid of progress. That’s why I’m running for president.”
She said her debut speech as a candidate will come next Sunday in front of the Trump International Hotel & Tower in New York.
Gillibrand has been one of the most forceful critics of the Trump administration. Using the backdrop of one of Trump’s marquee properties is a clear challenge to the president.
She announced her exploratory committee in January in an appearance on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Since then, she has visited a number of states to assess political support for a White House bid.
This coming week she plans to campaign in Michigan, Iowa and Nevada, leading up to her New York kickoff.
Gillibrand has been a vocal advocate for electing more women to office, as well as combating sexual assault and violence in politics and the military.

Trump answers rebuke of border order with a veto

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Unbowed by a congressional rebuke, President Donald Trump issued the first veto of his presidency on Friday in a demonstration that he is not through fighting for his signature campaign promise, which stands largely unfulfilled 18 months before voters decide whether to grant him another term.
Trump rejected an effort by Congress to block the emergency declaration he’d used to circumvent lawmakers as he tried to shake loose funds for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. The monthslong confrontation now moves to the courts, but not before marking a new era of divided government in Washington and Republicans’ increasing independence from the White House.
“Congress has the freedom to pass this resolution,” Trump said, “and I have the duty to veto it.”
A dozen defecting Republicans joined Senate Democrats in approving the joint resolution on Thursday as both parties strained to exert their power in new ways. It is unlikely that Congress will have the two-thirds majority required to override Trump’s veto, though House Democrats will try nonetheless on March 26.
Despite the reproach, Trump seized the opportunity to publicly rebuff Congress and show his commitment to the border wall. In embracing the opportunity to deploy the constitutional power of the veto for the first time, he treated the occasion with all the traditional pomp of a bill-signing.
Trump was surrounded in the Oval Office by supporters, including law enforcement officials and the parents of children killed by people in the country illegally, who offered profuse thanks and frequent applause. Trump dramatically signed his veto message and then held the document up for the cameras to capture.
Trump wants to use the emergency order to divert billions of federal dollars earmarked for defense spending toward the southern border wall. It still faces several legal challenges from Democratic state attorneys general and environmental groups who argue the emergency declaration was unconstitutional.
Those cases could prevent Trump from diverting extra money to barrier construction for months or longer. American Civil Liberties Union, which filed one of the challenges, said the veto is meaningless, like the declaration in the first place.
“Congress has rejected the president’s declaration, and now the courts will be the ultimate arbiter of its legality. We look forward to seeing him in court and to the shellacking that he will receive at the hands of an independent judiciary,” said Executive Director Anthony Romero.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called Trump’s veto a “lawless power grab” and railed that, even after both chambers tried to stop him, Trump “has chosen to continue to defy the Constitution, the Congress and the will of the American people.”
Trump, however, insisted the situation on the southern border is “a tremendous national emergency,” adding, “our immigration system is stretched beyond the breaking point.”
Many lawmakers said Thursday’s vote was not necessarily a rejection of the president or the wall, but protections against future presidents — namely a Democrat who might want to declare an emergency on climate change, gun control or any number of other issues.
It was the first direct challenge to the 1976 National Emergencies Act, just as a Wednesday vote on Yemen was the first time Congress invoked the decades-old War Powers Act to try to rein in a president. That resolution seeking to end U.S. backing for the Saudi Arabian-led coalition fighting in Yemen was approved in the aftermath of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and is expected to be the subject of Trump’s second veto.
Despite the embarrassing defections of the 12 GOP senators, Trump’s grip on the party remains strong and the White House made it clear that Republicans resisting Trump could face political consequences. Ahead of the voting, Trump framed the issue as with-him-or-against-him on border security, a powerful argument with many.
But Friday, Trump said he had sympathy for the Republicans who voted against him and emphasized that he never truly twisted the arms of lawmakers, because he knew there were not enough votes to override the veto.
“Look, they were doing what they have to do,” Trump said, insisting he “put no pressure” on lawmakers to vote against the resolution because he realized that the measure was likely to pass.
Still, a White House official said Trump won’t forget when senators who opposed him want him to attend fundraisers or provide other help. The official was not authorized to speak publicly on internal deliberations so spoke on condition of anonymity.
Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump painted his usual portrait of a lawless and violent border. He cited “thousands and thousands” of gang arrests and claimed many of the asylum seekers released into the U.S. were “stone-cold killers,” ignoring data that shows immigrants are less likely to commit crime. He noted, correctly, a spike in the number of people coming to the border to claim asylum.
Trump initiated the showdown months ago when he all but dared Congress not to give him the $5.7 billion he was demanding to build the U.S.-Mexico wall, by threatening a federal government shutdown.
Congress declined and the result was the longest shutdown in U.S. history. Against the advice of GOP leaders, Trump invoked the national emergency declaration last month, allowing him to try to tap about $3.6 billion for the wall by shuffling money from military projects, and that drew outrage from many lawmakers. Trump had campaigned for president promising Mexico would pay for the wall.
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AP writers Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro, Catherine Lucey and Colleen Long contributed.

An Aliquippa police officer is still recovering this morning after being hurt trying to perform a traffic stop. Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano has the update…