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ATLANTA (AP) -- Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said Thursday....

ATLANTA (AP) — Autism cases are on the rise again, largely due to wider screening and better diagnosis, federal health officials said Thursday.

The rate of U.S. cases of autism and related disorders rose to about 1 in 88 children. The previous estimate was 1 in 110.

The new ...

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Trayvon Martin's family has seized on a police video of neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman, saying it does not show the injuries Zimmerman claims he suffered before fatally shooting the unarmed black teenager....

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- During the darkest days of the Great Recession, Ohio didn't have enough in its rainy day fund to buy even a candy bar. It held a balance of exactly 89 cents....

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- James Arruda Henry had plenty to be proud of as a lobster boat captain who managed to build his own house and raise a family. But he kept a secret into his 90s, one that forced him to bluff his way through life by day and brought tears at night....

BECKLEY, W.Va. (AP) — The former superintendent of a southern West Virginia mine where an explosion killed 29 workers pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal fraud charge.

Gary May of Bloomingrose, W.Va., the highest-ranking Massey Energy official charged in connection with the blast, faces up to five years in prison when sentenced ...

DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan militia leader and his son each pleaded guilty Thursday to illegally possessing a machine gun, ending a six-week trial that took a dramatic turn this week when a judge dismissed more serious charges of conspiring to rebel against the government.

The gun charges were the ...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A new government report says autism is more common than previously thought, burdening as many as 1 in 88 children....

DETROIT (AP) -- A Michigan militia leader and his son have pleaded guilty to a machine gun charge, two days after a federal judge dismissed more serious charges against them and five members of the group....

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) — No one recalls JetBlue Airways Capt. Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side.

Now federal prosecutors have charged ...

SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- The fatal shooting of a black teenager by a neighborhood watch captain who then went free has led to nationwide protests calling for the shooter's arrest. Trayvon Martin's parents, civil rights leaders and social media users alike are portraying the case as racially motivated, saying the shooter would have been arrested had he been black and the victim white....

St. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- A snowplow driver and his wife went to great lengths to dispose of the body of a popular teacher they had just beaten and strangled, putting her nude body on a tarp, pouring bleach on it, weighing the corpse down with concrete blocks and tossing it into the Connecticut River, court documents allege....

St. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- A snowplow driver and his wife went to great lengths to dispose of the body of a popular teacher they had just beaten and strangled, putting her nude body on a tarp, pouring bleach on it, weighing the corpse down with concrete blocks and tossing it into the Connecticut River, court documents allege....

St. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) -- A snowplow driver and his wife went to great lengths to dispose of the body of a popular teacher they had just beaten and strangled, putting her nude body on a tarp, pouring bleach on it, weighing the corpse down with concrete blocks and tossing it into the Connecticut River, court documents allege....

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) -- Prosecutors who say an "obsessed" Kansas man killed a 14-year-old cheerleader and burned her body at an asphalt plant must prove aggravating circumstances, such as sexual assault, to secure a capital murder conviction....

The state constitution does not impose a reasonable suspicion standard before a drug dog can be used on a vehicle. People v. Esparza, 2012 CO 22, 2012 Colo. LEXIS 224 (March 26, 2012).

Sobriety roadblock was set up by a supervisory officer two days earlier by surveying in the area. The fact only two officers manned the roadblock was not an issue to make it unreasonable. State v. Brown, 2012 Ga. App. LEXIS 337 (March 26, 2012).*

The district court didn’t find probable cause for arrest, but the appellate court does, so the false arrest claim is foreclosed. “In this case there was certainly arguable probable cause. The undisputed evidence showed that within seven minutes of being informed of a possible break-in and assault, Turner spotted Fleming in an alleyway approximately one-half block from the crime scene. Fleming was the only person in the area and he substantially matched the description of the intruder that one of the victims had given to Turner—he was wearing a baseball cap, t-shirt, and camouflage cargo shorts. From this evidence, a police officer could have reasonably, if mistakenly, believed that probable cause existed to arrest Fleming. This is true even if Haleigh had described Turner's t-shirt as ‘light-colored’ because witnesses often have minor details incorrect.” Fleming v. Livingston County, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 6268 (7th Cir. March 28, 2012).*

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- It may be impossible to overstate the importance of bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs to American music. A pioneering banjo player who helped create modern country music, his sound is instantly recognizable and as intrinsically wrapped in the tapestry of the genre as Johnny Cash's baritone or Hank Williams' heartbreak....

NOME, Alaska (AP) -- The measure of how challenging it can be to live in Nome, Alaska, starts with a dollar sign....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans are ready to ram through the House an election-year, $3.5 trillion budget that showcases their deficit-cutting plan for revamping Medicare and slicing everything from food stamps to transportation while rejecting President Barack Obama's call to raise taxes on the rich....

RICHMOND HILL, Ga. (AP) -- No one recalls JetBlue Airways captain Clayton Osbon coming unhinged before. Not the airline that let him fly for 12 years, the neighbors in his secluded waterfront community or the friends he tried selling weight-loss shakes to on the side....