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PITTSBURGH (AP) - Donald Trump was showing off his knowledge of all things Pennsylvania during a Pittsburgh rally when he asked a baffling question - about Penn State's famed football coach. "How's Joe Paterno?" Trump asked supporters Wednesday night. "Are we gonna bring that back?" Paterno died in January 2012 just months after being dismissed…

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) - The Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been ordered to spend nearly two years in jail. State District Judge Wayne Salvant said Wednesday that Ethan Couch must spend 180 days in jail for each of the four people he killed in 2013 when…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Top House Republicans say they are likely to grant a portion of President Barack Obama's $1.9 billion request to combat the Zika virus but will probably wait until September to do so. Congressional Republicans have succeeded in forcing the administration to divert almost $600 million in unspent Ebola funds to fighting Zika.…

WASHINGTON (AP) - House Speaker Paul Ryan's national stature is such that he had to call a news conference to deny he wants to be president. Back on Capitol Hill, he's about to blow through a statutory deadline to pass an annual budget, a major embarrassment for him and House Republicans. Under the government's arcane…

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) - Federal investigators looking into the theft of artwork - including Andy Warhol prints of Campbell soup cans - at a southwest Missouri museum hope a $25,000 reward stirs up leads. The Springfield News-Leader reports the FBI announced the reward Monday. The FBI says the break-in at the Springfield Art Museum took…