Napan Jim King and the organization he founded have been honored by a Washington, D.C. based organization. King and If Given a Chance took one of the top three awards given out last week in San Francisco.

Marjorie Fletcher's son was surprised at how quickly she bounced back from a three-week bout with pneumonia. Mike Bonifield is convinced her speedy recovery stemmed from the fact that his 81-year-old mother faithfully works out three times a week.

A sheriff's deputy shot and killed a Yountville man who threatened him with a kitchen knife early Monday morning at a mobile home park in Yountville.

Bay Area DA's taking supplement maker to court

A Napa man was murdered in Concord on Saturday evening.

WASHINGTON -- As Congress moves to slash $40 billion in spending, no program will take a bigger hit than college loans, where almost $13 billion would be cut over five years.

LOS ANGELES -- Hundreds of people converged Monday on the South Los Angeles neighborhood where Stanley Tookie Williams co-founded the Crips to say goodbye to a "homeboy" executed last week over the objections of supporters who said he had turned his life around.

SYDNEY, Australia -- Detectives investigating race riots that rocked Sydney last week seized a pistol, ammunition, knives and smoke bombs in a series of raids Monday.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) -- The two women strode into City Hall with outsized pink corsages pinned to their black-and-white tailored suits, ignoring the chants of anti-homosexual protesters outside.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has banned all Western music from Iran's state radio and TV stations -- an eerie reminder of the 1979 Islamic revolution when popular music was outlawed as "un-Islamic" under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.