National News

CIA director Leon Panetta says the stepped-up attacks by the U.S. has driven Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders deeper into hiding.

A Toyota spokesman says a Prius that crashed into a stone wall in the New York suburbs is yielding data on engine speed and pedal position.

FBI Director Robert Mueller says the man suspected of trying to blow up a U.S. airliner on Christmas is cooperating with investigators.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan says college basketball teams that don't graduate at least 40 percent of their players should be banned from postseason play.

Prosecutors say a member of a polygamist group whose sprawling West Texas ranch was raided in 2008 has been found guilty of sexual assault of a child.

Authorities say a 15-year-old girl was savagely beaten by a teenage boy while waiting for her bus outside a Florida middle school.

The Senate is sending the first of several promised election-year jobs bills to President Obama for his signature but a small business group predicts the bill won't have much effect.

Police in Washington state say a man who accompanied his wife to a church for a counseling session shot the woman several times at the church and killed her.

A Minnesota man has been arrested in Chicago and charged with selling his wife's sexual services on Craigslist.

Police in Tennessee say two bank robbery suspects have been shot and killed after they fired at police officers during a car chase.