The Trail

Previous reliable estimates put McCain's net worth at more than $100 million, largely because of the wealth of wife Cindy McCain. She is the heiress to her father's stake in Hensley & Co. of Phoenix, one of the largest beer distributorships in the country.

-- Matthew Mosk

'IT'S A TRUE STORY'

Dead Woman's Aunt Defends Clinton

The aunt of a young pregnant woman who died after an Ohio hospital told her she needed to pay $100 upfront for care said in an interview Monday that Hillary Rodham Clinton has been telling the story accurately on the campaign trail, regardless of assertions by a different Ohio hospital that it did not turn the patient away.

For weeks, Clinton repeated an anecdote she heard in Ohio on Feb. 28 involving a young woman who lost her baby and later died because she lacked health insurance and did not have $100 to get into a nearby hospital.

But over the weekend, Clinton came under fire when officials at O'Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, after reading about her remarks, demanded that she stop recounting it because the patient, Trina Bachtel, was admitted there and did have insurance.

That part, it turns out, is true. But so is Clinton's assertion that Bachtel did not get care at another hospital that wanted a $100 pre-payment before seeing her, according to the young woman's aunt, Lisa Casto, who described her niece as having had preeclampsia. "It's a true story," said Casto, 53.

-- Anne E. Kornblut