National News

As a new AP poll finds support for improvements to the health care system, but distaste for the way the debate is playing out in Washington, President Barack Obama continues the campaign for overhaul today in St. Louis.

An intelligence official says the government has nearly doubled the number of people on the no-fly list since the attempted Christmas Day attack near Detroit.

The Los Angeles coroner's office says The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim is dead at 38.

The families of three U.S. hikers detained in Iran for months say their loved ones have been allowed to call home for the first time.

Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools.

She's an American convert to Islam, who allegedly called herself JihadJane online. And authorities say a Pennsylvania woman expressed a willingness to become a martyr on behalf of Muslims.

A dramatic 911 call reveals a terrified 7-year-old boy begging emergency dispatchers to send police to his California home where three armed robbers were threatening his parents.

David Letterman is thanking authorities for their efforts in prosecuting the former CBS producer who tried to shake him down.

The California Highway Patrol officer who helped a man stop his runaway Toyota Prius says he could smell the burning brakes.

An envelope containing a suspicious powder burst open Tuesday while being handled by state workers in a Montana government office.