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American Canyon Troop Support (ACTS) is preparing a holiday shipment for troops serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The California Department of Conservation has rescheduled an Oct. 28 listening session to discuss the Williamson Act in Napa County. The session will now be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14 at the Napa Main Library Community Meeting Room, 580 Coombs St.

American Canyon is getting tough with Caltrans over trash clean-up on Highway 29.

In order to avoid political battles over controversial housing allocation numbers released every few years by the Association of Bay Area Governments, Napa County and its cities are getting an early start on the next round.

Local vintners are breathing a sigh of relief as Wednesday's early morning and daytime rain arrived at the tail end of this year's record harvest.

The death of Rosa Parks underscores that the generation responsible for the key victories of the civil rights movement is fading into history, leaving its survivors with the challenge of keeping the movement's memory and work alive even as today's youth often seem disengaged.

If you think the library needs to buy more CDs, add computers and open a Starbucks kiosk, now's the time to share your opinion.

WASHINGTON -- The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee served notice Wednesday he intends to question Harriet Miers about the Bush administration's policy of detaining suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, injecting new uncertainty into a Supreme Court nomination already in doubt.

ATLANTA -- All children between ages 1 and 2 should be vaccinated against the hepatitis A virus, a national vaccine panel recommended Wednesday.

NORMAL, Ill. -- A body found in a burned-out chicken coop in Mississippi has been identified as that of an Illinois college student who disappeared two weeks ago, authorities said Wednesday.

ABOVE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on Wednesday asked victims of Hurricane Wilma to have patience for relief efforts as he surveyed crumpled boats, shattered mobile homes and snaking lines of cars at fuel stations along the storm's path.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Former Gov. Don Siegelman was charged Wednesday in a "widespread racketeering conspiracy" that includes allegations he took a bribe from former hospital executive Richard Scrushy for a key state appointment.

SAN JOSE -- Journalists who survived Hurricane Katrina and managed to keep publishing from the disaster zone have a new appreciation for their readers, as well as the media's crucial role in debunking rumors, several editors said Wednesday.

BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Louisiana attorney general's office subpoenaed 73 employees of Memorial Hospital on Wednesday as part of its investigation of deaths at hospitals and nursing homes in the New Orleans area during and after Hurricane Katrina.

ARCADIA -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger warned Wednesday that legislators could push California into a nightmarish era of higher taxes and runaway spending unless voters endorse his proposal to place tighter controls on the state budget.

One of every four doctors in North America, Britain and Australia is an immigrant who attended a foreign medical school, contributing to a "brain drain" that deprives poor countries of good medical care, researchers say.