A withered sister city relationship with a wine region halfway around the world shows signs of revival now that stability is returning to the Republic of Georgia.

With millions of dollars' worth of program and staff reductions in the offing, the city of Napa held a public workshop Thursday night on what spending priorities should be over the next two years.

More than 100 people -- from winery owners and elected officials to long-time citizens with a list of concerns -- crowded into the county's penultimate general plan meeting, held at the Napa City-County Library on Wednesday evening.

In a cooking contest for local kids that pitted pesto pasta against tropical smoothies, and spinach quesadillas against ambrosia salad, it was a tough call for the most delicious dish.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- With her husband and parents feuding to the bitter end and beyond, Terri Schiavo died Thursday, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute that engulfed the courts, Capitol Hill and the White House and divided the country.

A withered sister city relationship with a wine region halfway around the world shows signs of revival now that stability is returning to the Republic of Georgia.

With millions of dollars' worth of program and staff reductions in the offing, the city of Napa held a public workshop Thursday night on what spending priorities should be over the next two years.

More than 100 people -- from winery owners and elected officials to long-time citizens with a list of concerns -- crowded into the county's penultimate general plan meeting, held at the Napa City-County Library on Wednesday evening.

A non-injury hit-and-run crash Wednesday afternoon led to the arrest of two Napa men on suspected drug possession.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Fred Korematsu, who became a symbol of civil rights for challenging the World War II internment orders that sent 120,000 Japanese Americans to government camps, has died. He was 86.

President Bush spoke for "millions of Americans ... saddened by the death of Terri Schiavo," but only a few of them knew her as a woman -- not a cause or a political battleground, not a heartbreaking figure whose every facial tic was scrutinized for evidence of a conscious mind within.

ROME -- The Vatican denounced the "arbitrarily hastened" death of Terri Schiavo on Thursday as a violation of principles of Christianity and civilization, and a cardinal described her end as a "death sentence executed through a cruel method."

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II developed a high fever Thursday because of a urinary tract infection and was being treated with antibiotics at the Vatican, his spokesman said. The latest health setback for the 84-year-old pontiff came one day after he began receiving nutrition through a feeding tube.

SACRAMENTO -- U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta on Thursday defended the Bush administration plan to cut off subsidies for Amtrak as a way to improve rail passenger service, but local critics suggested it would do just the opposite.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide car bomber blew himself up Thursday near an Islamic shrine, killing five Iraqis in the latest attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims marking a major religious holiday.

In a cooking contest for local kids that pitted pesto pasta against tropical smoothies, and spinach quesadillas against ambrosia salad, it was a tough call for the most delicious dish.

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. -- With her husband and parents feuding to the bitter end and beyond, Terri Schiavo died Thursday, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed in a wrenching right-to-die dispute that engulfed the courts, Capitol Hill and the White House and divided the country.

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Thursday to prosecute Sudanese war crimes suspects before the International Criminal Court, after the United States reversed policy and agreed not to use its veto.