Toys for flood victims

Weather is the intelligence piece of flood forecasting, according to Neal O'Haire, Napa County's emergency services manager.

If everything had gone as planned, the Napa River flood control project would now be in its final year of construction. But things have not gone as planned.

Victims of Napa's New Year's Eve flood need to beware and not get soaked twice. Disasters can bring out seedy characters who try to make a buck on unsuspecting victims.

In times of natural disaster, many of those who have suffered damage to their homes find themselves victims of fraud.

Students in the Napa Valley Unified School District are just as torn about the three-week break as their parents are. This week was the first week back for students, and reactions to the extra week varied from student to student.

Three years ago, tired and disillusioned, Angel Calderon walked away from his dream of creating jobs in his impoverished hometown of Timbinal in Guanajuato, Mexico.

BEVERLY HILLS -- Shelley Winters, the forceful, outspoken star who graduated from blond bombshell parts to dramas, winning Academy Awards as supporting actress in "The Diary of Anne Frank" and "A Patch of Blue," has died. She was 85.

TALLMANSVILLE, W.Va. -- Coal mines still call to Ronald Grall.

HOMER, Alaska -- Snowflakes laced with fine, gray ash fell on communities south of Anchorage as a series of volcanic eruptions continued early Saturday on an uninhabited island dozens of miles away.

ATLANTA -- The government, for the first time, is urging doctors not to prescribe two antiviral drugs commonly used to fight influenza because of concerns about drug resistance, officials announced Saturday.

LONGWOOD, Fla. -- The 15-year-old boy shot by police while brandishing a pellet gun in a middle school bathroom was clinically brain dead Saturday but was being kept alive to harvest his organs, his family's attorney said.

SAN FRANCISCO -- In his 1957 classic "On the Road," Jack Kerouac wrote that he "stayed in San Francisco a week and had the beatest time" of his life.

DAMADOLA, Pakistan -- Pakistani officials on Saturday angrily condemned a purported CIA airstrike meant to target al-Qaida's No. 2 man, saying he wasn't there and "innocent civilians" were among at least 17 men, women and children killed in a village near the Afghan border.

JERUSALEM -- A test has shown activity in both sides of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's brain, but he remains comatose and in critical but stable condition, Hadassah Hospital said Saturday in its first update on the Israeli leader's condition in more than 24 hours.