National News

The chairman of the Democratic caucus in the House said Sunday his party has the 216 votes needed to pass President Barack Obama's historic health care bill.

Authorities in the southern Plains are blaming a spring blizzard for at least three deaths.

A weeklong fight against flooding is nearing its climax in Fargo, N.D., with miles of sandbags and clay dikes in place to fight back the bloated Red River.

Authorities are saying that two small planes have collided over central Florida and two people have been killed.

More Americans in Mexico are falling victim to a wave of drug violence sweeping the country, a change driven home by the recent killing of a U.S. Consulate employee and her husband who were gunned down after leaving a children's birthday party.

Organizers say thousands of people are headed to the nation's capital to protest on the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

Virginia Tech police are saying that a person sending threatening e-mails and Internet posts is not a danger to the university's campus.

An Oregon trial could see the release of secret Boy Scouts of America documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders.

Officials say they've dropped criminal charges in 185 cases involving more than 180 suspects in Camden, N.J. because of an investigation of police misconduct.

U.S. Marshals using information from Detroit police have arrested in California a man wanted in a double slaying reported by the 8-year-old daughter of one of the victims.