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There have been six cases involving the drug Ecstasy at Napa public high schools since the beginning of the school year. Three students have been arrested and complaints have been filed against the other students, according to Napa Police Sgt. Terry Gonsalves.

This is the first in a series of articles looking at the road to recovery for businesses that lost product in the Oct. 12 Wine Central Services fire.

A month and a half after a fire torched up to $150 million of inventory stored at the Wines Central Services warehouse in Vallejo, authorities continue to analyze evidence from the scene of the blaze.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- Mayor Jim West, a former Boy Scout executive and sheriff's deputy, says he no longer engages in gay sex and has stopped visiting Internet chat rooms.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- Thousands of spectators gathered Saturday to watch the demolition of the city's tallest building -- but the Zip Feed Mill tower was stronger than it looked.

HUDSON, Ohio -- Two small bodies found buried off Interstate 80 with duct-tape crosses over them were identified Saturday as the New Hampshire siblings killed by their father 2 1/2 years ago, authorities announced.

SAN QUENTIN -- Reminders of his upcoming execution are everywhere, but Stanley "Tookie" Williams doesn't like to talk about it.

SIKACHI-ALYAN, Russia -- Yevgenia Osadchaya is beside herself with worry, wondering how her family will survive when the toxic slick flowing from China pollutes the Amur River that provides the livelihood for her family and her native Nanai people.

LONDON -- Economic officials from the world's richest countries resumed their pressure on China to adopt a more flexible exchange rate and called Saturday for vigorous action against such threats to growth as high oil prices, protectionism and inflation.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine recorded its first bird flu outbreak on Saturday, prompting the president to declare a state of emergency in four Crimean villages where more than 1,600 chickens and geese have died of the disease.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- One of al-Qaida's top five leaders, said to be responsible for planning overseas strikes, was killed by Pakistani security forces in a rocket attack near the Afghan border with U.S. help, American and Pakistani officials said Saturday.

MONTREAL -- Thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities worldwide Saturday to demand urgent action on global warming as delegates continued their work at an international climate change conference to review and update the Kyoto Protocol.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- The Palestinians opened an inquiry Saturday into personnel suspected of violating a U.S.-brokered agreement at the Gaza-Egypt crossing after reports of militants entering the coastal strip, officials said.

UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan has decided to fire the highly regarded chief of the U.N. office that promotes free elections around the world for harassing staff and management failures, a U.N. official said.