Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises Inc. completed its acquisition of Napa Valley Register parent company Pulitzer Inc. on Friday. The acquisition included all of Pulitzer's capital stock for a cash purchase price of $64 per share, with enterprise value totaling $1.46 billion.

The Napa Police Department has shifted gears in its training program for new recruits.

For some immigrants who live and work in the valley, getting legal assistance can be costly, confusing and time consuming. But on Sunday it will become a bit easier for them when Legal Aid of Napa Valley visits St. Helena Catholic Church.

Napa garbage workers have reached a tentative contract settlement with Waste Management, averting the possibility of service disruption this summer, Andrew Morris, Waste Management's local general manager, said Friday.

Auction Napa Valley 2005 was off to a good start Friday at Trinchero Family Estates with the first-ever Auction & Festival, the initial event in the revamped auction that has raised more than $50 million in its first 24 years.

Two of Napa County's more visible government groups could merge, creating a multi-tasking agency that would deal with, most notably, land use and transportation.

Davenport, Iowa-based Lee Enterprises Inc. completed its acquisition of Napa Valley Register parent company Pulitzer Inc. on Friday. The acquisition included all of Pulitzer's capital stock for a cash purchase price of $64 per share, with enterprise value totaling $1.46 billion.

The Napa Police Department has shifted gears in its training program for new recruits.

For some immigrants who live and work in the valley, getting legal assistance can be costly, confusing and time consuming. But on Sunday it will become a bit easier for them when Legal Aid of Napa Valley visits St. Helena Catholic Church.

SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea gave rare praise to President Bush on Friday, welcoming his use of the honorific "Mr." when referring to leader Kim Jong Il and saying the softened tone could lead to its return to nuclear arms talks.

Napa garbage workers have reached a tentative contract settlement with Waste Management, averting the possibility of service disruption this summer, Andrew Morris, Waste Management's local general manager, said Friday.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia, a state with one of the worst obesity problems in the country, has called in the big guns for help. For the first time ever, federal disease investigators in Atlanta are studying obesity, just as they would investigate the rapid spread of an infectious disease.

Auction Napa Valley 2005 was off to a good start Friday at Trinchero Family Estates with the first-ever Auction & Festival, the initial event in the revamped auction that has raised more than $50 million in its first 24 years.

SANTA MARIA -- The case ended Friday as it had begun 14 weeks earlier, with videotapes being played in a dimly lit courtroom. And the last faces jurors saw on the big screen that dominated the trial were those of Michael Jackson and his accuser.

From The Associated Press

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