Council sets new garbage rates

Sacramento supes nix needle proposal

Maria Preciado misses her daughter Sandra.

Is Napa Valley losing millions of dollars to Sonoma County and other locations by limiting weddings and other events at wineries, or is it helping to preserve its most valuable asset, agriculture?

With wineries taking multi-million dollar hits on their inventory and momentum in the marketplace, last week's warehouse fire in Vallejo may be a boon to members of the legal profession in much the same way a Calistoga winery fire was a few years ago.

A half-cent transportation sales tax planned for the June ballot will be going to Napa County and its five cities for a vote of support over the next four weeks.

At least 23 Napa Valley wineries -- maybe more -- lost millions of dollars worth of wine in the Oct. 12 warehouse fire in Vallejo, but the effects of the fire will be felt by the wine industry for years to come, according to wine business analysts.

FRESNO -- Two climbers on a Sierra Nevada glacier discovered an ice-encased body believed to be that of an airman whose plane crashed in 1942.

SAUSALITO, Calif. -- Investigators continued their probe of a huge wine warehouse fire, searching a home in this waterfront community Wednesday that was linked to the owner of another wine storage business who was facing embezzlement charges.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- The sight was almost familiar, recalling the crime scene photos of murders that defense attorney Daniel Horowitz has seen so often.

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho -- A judge on Wednesday ordered a reluctant prosecutor to supply to defense attorneys copies of graphic videos found in a Jeep used by a suspected killer.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A defiant Saddam Hussein quarreled with judges and scuffled with guards at the opening of his long-awaited trial Wednesday, rejecting the tribunal's right to judge him and insisting he is still the president of Iraq.