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News for Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Sounds to keep kids trim in Napa

In response to the national epidemic of childhood obesity, some Napa residents and organizations have produced a children's health CD intended to promote exercise and healthy eating.

100 mph drive lands men in jail

Deputies stopped a vehicle early Saturday morning for speeding in excess of 100 miles per hour, sheriff's Capt. Mike Loughran said.

Ed Huber, ex-councilman dies at 79

Ed Huber, for 30 years a feisty community activist and a man who served two terms on the Napa City Council, died Thursday in Lake County.

Harvest's over, let the grape 'hang time' debate begin

In August of 2004, shortly before harvest, a surprise heat wave hit Napa's vines. The heat sent sugar levels shooting up and shriveled much of the grape crop. Growers, who are usually paid by the ton for their crop, lamented the decrease in their income that year.

Philadelphia area transit agency, striking union reach agreement after all-night talks

PHILADELPHIA -- Negotiators for the region's transit agency and the union representing striking workers reached a tentative agreement on a four-year contract, Gov. Ed Rendell said Monday.

Spacewalking crew installs new camera, discards data-collecting device

HOUSTON -- Two spacewalkers installed a camera on the outside of the international space station Monday and tossed overboard a surplus data-collecting device, sending it spinning off into the void like a spiraling football.

Crews search Indiana pond for bodies of tornado victims; death toll put at 22

EVANSVILLE, Ind. -- Crews began draining a pond next to a smashed mobile-home park in a search for bodies Monday after a twister ripped through Indiana and Kentucky and killed at least 22 people.

Fitness: Rigorous 'boot camp' workouts becoming gym staple

WEST HOLLYWOOD -- It's a fitness fad not for the faint of heart.

Cindy Sheehan makes So Cal appearance

SANTA MONICA-- Peace mom Cindy Sheehan, the activist mother of a solider killed in Iraq, showed up at the war dead memorial known as Arlington West on the beach near Santa Monica Pier.

Prince Charles, Camilla wrap up U.S. tour with new American fans

SAN FRANCISCO -- It may not be a fairy-tale romance, but most people seem to agree that the prince is charming.

Schwarzenegger, opponents campaign furiously as election looms

LOS ANGELES -- On a day of fiery, last-minute campaigning, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday jetted toward a climactic Election Day showdown with Democrats and California's powerful unions that could blot his re-election hopes or provide fresh evidence of his populist clout.

Bush defends policy on questioning terror suspects

PANAMA CITY, Panama -- President Bush on Monday defended U.S. interrogation practices and called the treatment of terrorism suspects lawful. "We do not torture," Bush declared in response to reports of secret CIA prisons overseas.

France imposing curfews under emergency law as rioting spreads to nearly 300 cities and towns

PARIS -- France will impose curfews under a state-of-emergency law and call up police reservists to stop rioting that has spread out of Paris' suburbs and into nearly 300 cities and towns across the country, the prime minister said Monday, calling a return to order "our No. 1 responsibility."

Police in Australia arrest 17 terror suspects, say they foiled attack

SYDNEY, Australia -- Australian authorities arrested 17 terror suspects on Tuesday -- including a prominent radical Muslim cleric sympathetic to Osama bin Laden -- and said they had foiled a major terror attack on the country by men committed to "violent jihad."

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