National News

Slowly but steadily, support is building behind President Barack Obama's health care legislation.

Lawyers for a Florida mother charged with killing her two-year-old daughter say they have spent the $275,000 in her defense fund.

The search for a missing Washington state woman has resumed, one day after her son's body was found on an island beach in Puget Sound.

Dominican police have arrested a fugitive who acted as the lawyer for U.S. missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 Haitian children.

One of three men convicted of killing Malcolm X 45 years ago has been granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board.

Police say the man charged with kidnapping Jaycee Dugard and holding her captive for 18 years in Northern California has been ruled out as a suspect in two unsolved murder cases involving children.

A Connecticut inmate with cancer who has served 16 years for murder is being freed after a star witness recanted.

School districts say it's practically free money and advertisers love the captive audience that school buses provide.

Attorney General Eric Holder is defending lawyers who represent unpopular clients and says such attorneys are patriots who deserve respect.

The sex offender charged with murdering a San Diego County teen was repeatedly fined for drug and driving offenses after his prison release.