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DAYTON, Ohio (AP) - A federal trial date has been set for an Ohio college student who rushed the stage at a Donald Trump rally. Chief Magistrate Sharon Ovington in Dayton on Thursday scheduled trial for May 31 for 22-year-old Thomas DiMassimo on a charge of illegally entering a restricted area. She also scheduled an…

ATLANTA (AP) - A new government report shows no change in how common autism is among U.S. children. About 1 in 68 school-aged children have autism or related disorders. That's the same as when health officials checked two years earlier. The lack of change is noteworthy because autism estimates had been steadily increasing. In 2007,…

CHICAGO (AP) - President Barack Obama has commuted prison sentences of five Illinoisans, including three serving life terms for drug crimes. The Illinois inmates were among 61 drug offenders whose sentences Obama commuted Wednesday. One of the inmates, Jesse Webster of Chicago, is serving a life term for intent to sell cocaine and filing false…

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump says the reporter who is behind misdemeanor battery charges against his campaign manager "shouldn't have been grabbing me." Trump defended campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Fox News Wednesday, a day after Florida police charged him following an incident earlier this month in which Lewandowski pulled the reporter,…

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has vetoed legislation he said would legalize discrimination of the LGBT community. The Democratic governor made the announcement Wednesday during a radio appearance on WTOP. The measure would prohibit the state from punishing religious groups that refuse services related to gay marriages. Republican supporters said it would…