As a prelude to putting the city's garbage franchise out to bid, Napa will pay $4.5 million to Napa Garbage Service for its half share of facilities near the Napa County airport.

Napa County residents in unincorporated areas around Napa and American Canyon could benefit from the work of negotiators angling for the best deal on garbage collection and recycling in the area.

An alert downstairs renter may have saved the life of a sleeping upstairs neighbor when a fire burned a duplex in the 1300 block of C Street in Napa early Sunday morning.

More than 400 hands rose into the air and extended outward Sunday morning at St. John the Baptist in Napa as Father Gordon Kalil led a prayer honoring law enforcement officers and firefighters. The moment was part of a "Blue Mass," the first in what the church plans to make into an annual, all-are-welcome tradition in Napa to recognize uniformed officers in the community.

As a prelude to putting the city's garbage franchise out to bid, Napa will pay $4.5 million to Napa Garbage Service for its half share of facilities near the Napa County airport.

Napa County residents in unincorporated areas around Napa and American Canyon could benefit from the work of negotiators angling for the best deal on garbage collection and recycling in the area.

DENVER -- Hours after Dave Stellick arrived on a flight from Atlanta, he was in a drug store looking for cold and flu medication.

LOS ANGELES -- Nearly a month after his arrest, Michael Jackson is expected to be charged this week in a child molestation case that legal experts say will require strong physical evidence for prosecutors to overcome questions about the accuser's credibility.

SACRAMENTO -- Americans used to be camels. Now, as various wags have noted, we come fully hydrated: Millions of people rarely step out without a water bottle nearby.

With 11 days until Christmas, shoppers crowded the nation's malls and stores over the weekend, their spirits buoyed by news of Saddam Hussein's capture. But it was unclear whether stores met their sales goals.

TIJUANA, Mexico -- No one disputes that Dawn Wilson was carrying prescription drugs in her bag. No one disputes she had no prescription with her as she walked along a road just after daybreak in the port city of Ensenada.

CHICAGO -- First, Americans watched as his statue fell in Baghdad. On Sunday, many celebrated again as news that U.S. forces had captured Saddam Hussein spread across the country.

CAIRO, Egypt -- For many Arabs, the scene on their television screens was inconceivable: one of the Middle East's once mightiest rulers humiliated, dirtied -- and in the hands of American soldiers. It was a joy to behold for some, and a shock to those who lionized Saddam Hussein.

An alert downstairs renter may have saved the life of a sleeping upstairs neighbor when a fire burned a duplex in the 1300 block of C Street in Napa early Sunday morning.

More than 400 hands rose into the air and extended outward Sunday morning at St. John the Baptist in Napa as Father Gordon Kalil led a prayer honoring law enforcement officers and firefighters. The moment was part of a "Blue Mass," the first in what the church plans to make into an annual, all-are-welcome tradition in Napa to recognize uniformed officers in the community.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Cornered alone in a cramped hole near one of his sumptuous palaces, a weary, disheveled Saddam Hussein was seized by U.S. troops and displayed on television screens worldwide Sunday, a humiliating fate for one of history's most brutal dictators.