Register seeks dirty jobs

Former football star faces 25 years in prison

The Napa County Board of Education has honored Barbara Stoer, who teaches teachers within the Napa Valley Unified School District, as the Teacher of the Year for 2006.

Napa County may not have any medical marijuana clubs, but the Board of Supervisors recently adopted a program requiring identification cards for users of medical marijuana and their caregivers.

As a full moon settled behind the hills west of Alston Park earlier this week, the haunting howl of a coyote echoed across the 157-acre, open-space park.

A sleuthing reporter has discovered the stunning truth about those pizza boxes and empty milk cartons that you put in your blue recycling cart.

Val's Liquors robbed

More than 600 people, from toddlers to seniors, marched in Napa's first-ever Walk to Cure Diabetes at St. Supery Winery in Rutherford Saturday.

PENDLETON, Ore. -- In some parts of the country, a man can be judged by the cut of his suit or his designer tie. Here, in a town known for its rodeo culture, men size each other up by the quality of their cowboy hats.

NEW YORK -- A popular toy-marketing campaign, in which girls browse through hospital-style nurseries to choose a lifelike doll to "adopt," has come under fire from prominent adoption advocates who say the program -- featured at scores of stores nationwide -- conveys a harmful notion that adopted children are salable commodities.

ABERDEEN, Wash. -- Calvin O'Brien followed his father and grandfather to work at the sawmill here, the third generation of O'Briens to trade honest labor for a wage that few other jobs could provide in this blue-collar town.

WASHINGTON -- Don't let his age fool you.

WASHINGTON -- Throughout his first term, President Bush struggled to avoid repeating his father's mistakes. Yet less than a year after he claimed the re-election mandate denied his dad, he is confronting some of the same problems that bedeviled the first Bush presidency.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- A ceremony Saturday marking a seminal event in the civil rights movement -- a church bombing that killed four black girls -- drew native daughter Condoleezza Rice, a friend of one of the victims.

KEY WEST, Fla. -- Heavy rain from Hurricane Wilma's outer bands battered parts of Florida on Saturday as residents streamed out of the Keys under a mandatory evacuation order and forecasters announced a hurricane watch for the state's entire southern peninsula.

AUSTIN, Texas -- State District Judge Bob Perkins took a long vacation before settling in to oversee criminal proceedings that could bring down one of the Republican Party's biggest players -- U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay.

FRESNO -- For nearly 60 years, the names of a pilot and three crew members who died when their plane crashed into an icy peak have been etched on a military gravestone.

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign said Saturday it was withdrawing a TV ad that featured the governor appealing to voters to support his slate of ballot initiatives.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- U.S. troops and warplanes killed 20 insurgents Saturday while destroying safehouses for foreign militants near the Syrian border, and four more American military deaths edged the war's U.S. death toll closer to 2,000.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- A nationwide antigun referendum has stirred many Brazilians to defend a right they feel they deserve, although it's not guaranteed by their Constitution: The right to bear arms.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt -- Thousands of police manned barricades around Christian churches in Egypt's second largest city Saturday, a day after Muslim rioters attacked churches and shops, leaving four people dead in the country's worst religious violence in five years.