Last week, the Napa County District Attorney's Office sued three individuals for fraud for their work with Napa-based adoption agency Yunona U.S.A.

Napa Valley College police are on the move, and the college's health center is out of the darkness.

Napa Valley was under water a few weeks ago, but that was nothing compared to Hurricane Katrina, and a group of locals still has the victims of the 2005 storm that devastated the Gulf Coast in mind.

Salvador Diaz bit into an apple Wednesday and savored it down to its core. But it wasn't the sweetness of the fruit that had his mouth watering and his taste buds humming.

Politics have entered the discussion of Napa County's road map to the future.

Police are looking for the man who stabbed Shawn Miranda in the back during an argument Monday afternoon.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- A judge Monday ordered a psychological examination for one of two teens arrested in the fatal beating of a homeless man and a second beating that was videotaped by a surveillance camera.

GULFPORT, Miss. -- Nicki Henderson has had plenty of reasons to be angry since Hurricane Katrina destroyed her Biloxi home, but it was a simple news item about dislocated dolphins that really made her blood boil.

ATLANTA -- With the widow of Martin Luther King Jr. absent for the first time in nearly four decades, preachers and politicians urged people Monday to continue the slain leader's lifelong pursuit of civil rights and nonviolence.

Woman mauled by German shepherd and chow

SAN FRANCISCO -- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal Monday from a 76-year-old convicted killer who argued that he was too old and feeble to be executed.

RANCHO MIRAGE -- Former President Gerald Ford was undergoing treatment for pneumonia on Monday and was doing well, his chief of staff said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's electoral commission ruled Monday that more than 99 percent of the ballots from the Dec. 15 parliamentary elections are valid, opening the way for a new government to start coming together.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Pakistan's ruling party on Monday demanded an apology for an alleged CIA airstrike that killed at least 17 people, but the country's prime minister said his trip to the United States this week would go ahead as planned.

LONDON -- Moscow and Beijing joined the U.S. and its European allies in demanding Monday that Iran fully suspend its nuclear program, while Vladimir Putin held out hope for a compromise, saying Tehran might agree to move its uranium enrichment program to Russia.

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan -- Heavy snow and rain forced the United Nations to ground relief flights to Pakistan's earthquake-hit areas for a second straight day Monday, as former President Bush arrived to begin a tour of the stricken region.