Register seeks dirty jobs

Bodega Bay beach to reopen after shark attack

California's Department of Fish and Game wants to restore 1,400 acres of what were once salt evaporation ponds near the Napa County Airport. DFG says it wants the area to become "a mosaic of tidal wetland and open water habitat."

Editor's note: Napa attorney Dave Meyers rode a bicycle coast to coast. His wife, Jane, followed in a vehicle, sketchbook in hand. This is their eighth and final report.

Dave Garden's White Barn is a St. Helena landmark because of its theater performances, but dirt -- not stagecraft -- is making Garden an example for other county landowners.

On the popular television series "MASH" Mike Farrell saved lives as Dr. BJ Honeycutt. The show was canceled in 1983, but that didn't seem to stop Farrell from saving people through his work as an activist and on Sunday morning he was in the valley speaking out against the death penalty.

With little more than two weeks before the California special election, today offers the last chance for voters to register to take part in the balloting called for by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this year.

WASHINGTON -- Women made up 7 percent of all inmates in state and federal prisons last year and accounted for nearly one in four arrests, the government reported Sunday.

WASHINGTON -- Harriet Miers does not have the votes now in the GOP-controlled Senate to be confirmed for the Supreme Court and confirmation hearings "will be make or break ... in a way they haven't been for any other nominee," a leading Democratic senator said Sunday.

KEY WEST, Fla. -- Hurricane Wilma accelerated toward storm-weary Florida on Sunday, threatening residents with 100-mph winds, tornadoes and a surge of seawater that could flood the Keys and the state's southwest coast.

NEW YORK -- The New York Times' ombudsman said the newspaper should review reporter Judith Miller's journalism practices to address "clear issues of trust and credibility" in her role in the CIA leak investigation. Miller's attorney called the newspaper's recent criticism of her "shameless."

LAGOS, Nigeria -- Twisted chunks of metal, ripped luggage and mangled bodies turned a swath of woods into a grisly scene after a Nigerian passenger plane carrying 117 people crashed shortly after takeoff and officials said Sunday that all aboard were feared dead.

LONDON -- The British government said Sunday that a strain of bird flu that killed a parrot in quarantine is the deadly H5N1 strain that has plagued Asia and recently spread to Europe.

CANCUN, Mexico -- Mexicans and stranded tourists, hungry and frustrated after a two-day beating by Hurricane Wilma, stood in line to buy supplies Sunday or simply raided grocery or furniture stores, dragging goods from shops ripped open by the storm.