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Tommy DiMassimo, the Wright State University student with Atlanta ties who in March rushed the stage at an Donald Trump rally in Ohio, has raised $340 from 10 people through a Go Fund Me page for his legal defense as of Wednesday afternoon. His funding goal is $25,000, according to the page. DiMassimo was arrested March 12 after he vaulted a stage barrier and rushed to the back of the stage in a hangar near Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. His Go Fund Me page gets political, saying that he rushed the stage “not to...

SAN DIEGO NAVAL STATION, Calif. — As his ship spun into San Diego Bay on Dec. 6 to begin a deployment, Fire Controlman 3rd Class Pablo Paredes turned his back and walked through the pier gates as a crowd of families yelled “coward!” and “traitor!” The assault ship Bonhomme Richard would leave on this deployment without Paredes, a 23-year-old who refused to board the ship with the rest of the ship’s crew. “I’m sad that anyone is on there,” he said, taking a glance shortly after the ship blew its horns and pulled from its berth. Paredes had tried unsuccessfully...