Elections Department encourages early voting

Attorney sentenced to prison; pleads guilty to videotaping young males under water

For Napa County Planning Commissioner Jim King, the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was personal. That's prompted him to launch a campaign to help a devastated community rebuild.

When disaster strikes in Napa, Police Chaplain Lee Shaw is usually on the scene to bring comfort and support to those who are suffering.

Napa Mayor Jill Techel discussed the importance of reading, keeping Napa clean and what it's like to be a mayor with 570 Napa Valley Language Academy students on Friday.

Vallejo man dies in crash

A Napa State Hospital patient was sentenced Friday to 26 years to life in prison for the murder of a fellow patient in 2002.

POMPANO BEACH, Fla. -- Simple tasks like buying gas, cooking food and even turning on the lights got a little easier Friday, with power restored to nearly half the homes and businesses that lost it during Hurricane Wilma.

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff resigned Friday after he was indicted by a grand jury, accused of obstructing its investigation and lying about an effort to blow the CIA cover of an Iraq war critic's wife.

WASHINGTON -- In death, Rosa Parks is joining a select few, including presidents and war heroes, accorded a public viewing in the Capitol Rotunda. It's the place where, six years ago, President Clinton and congressional leaders lauded the former seamstress for a simple act of defiance that changed the course of race relations.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of San Francisco police officers, sheriff's deputies and paramedics will be out in force this year to monitor the gay and lesbian community's massive Halloween street party, which is expected to draw close to a quarter of a million revelers to the city's Castro district.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Supporters of the 23-year-old mother accused of throwing her three sons into the San Francisco Bay held hands and prayed for the woman before her latest court appearance on murder charges Friday.

MARTINEZ -- Prosecutors on Friday dropped charges against the mother of a teenager accused of killing a prominent attorney's wife after she agreed to testify against her son.

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- U.N. helicopters ferrying supplies to South Asia's earthquake survivors will be grounded within a week and relief operations scaled back unless aid agencies receive more funding and donors make good on pledges worth millions of dollars, officials said Friday.