National News

The House is moving toward a historic vote on health care reform that's expected to pass.

A brother of the man authorities say went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood says the Army psychiatrist is a peaceful person — and hopes he will be treated fairly by the legal system.

One of two police officers who confronted the alleged Fort Hood killer says he shot the man before kicking his weapon away, cuffing him and thus ending the nation's worst killing spree on a military base.

A company spokesman says a Delta plane headed to Philadelphia had to return to the gate just before takeoff from Atlanta because of an engine fire.

New York State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user.

President Barack Obama is attending a memorial service at Fort Hood on Tuesday and now won't get to his planned first stop in Asia next week until one day later than expected.

With the word's "let's roll," U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and relatives of United Flight 93 victims have turned shovels of dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a permanent national memorial at the western Pennsylvania crash site.

A man charged with killing a worker and wounding five others in the Orlando engineering firm where he once worked has been denied bond.

Police in Cleveland have identified another woman whose remains were discovered at the home of a suspected serial killer.

Questions about how many people the D.C. snipers killed aren't expected to end with Tuesday's execution of mastermind John Allen Muhammad.