Register Staff Writer

Food distribution for low-income residents

In an effort to help guide seniors through the new Medicare prescription drug program, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has introduced legislation that would add $100 million to for State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) funding. Known as HICAPs in California, they are federally mandated to provide Medicare beneficiaries with unbiased information about their coverage options.

The Napa County District Attorney's Office has determined that a Napa County Sheriff's deputy was justified in shooting and killing a Yountville man in December.

On the football field Pro Football Hall-of-Famer Joe Montana scored myriad touchdowns and led the 49ers to four Super Bowl titles, but on Saturday afternoon Montana scored a touchdown of a different kind for the students of Blue Oak School.

A strong-arm robbery ended with a 48-year-old Napa man taken into custody Friday night. Napa Police officers arrested Guy Kreig Bartlett on suspicion of armed robbery hours after he robbed another man at an automated-teller machine, Napa Police Sgt. Pat Manzer said.

SEATTLE -- Washington is joining Oregon, California and New Mexico in a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration move to open roadless national forest lands to mining, logging, road-building and other development, Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday.

SEATTLE -- Martin Tobias drives to work each day in a 2005 Volkswagen Beetle -- one that's entirely powered by soybean oil. The chief executive of Seattle Biodiesel hopes thousands of others will soon follow his lead.

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration on Friday detailed its proposal to sell more than 300,000 acres of national forests and other public land to help pay for rural schools in 41 states.

STATESBORO, Ga. -- Donny Ray Harris Jr. died on a rural stretch of Interstate 16 while riding shotgun with an intoxicated friend who lost control and flipped his car.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana women seeking an abortion would be told life begins at conception under a proposal that would give the state one of the furthest-reaching abortion consent laws in the country.

Even as the price of college rises, more low-income students who would likely get federal financial aid aren't even bothering to apply.

CHINO -- A Los Angeles County paramedic squad and passenger vehicle collided, injuring three people, including one critically, authorities said. No paramedics were injured.

SACRAMENTO -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing to move 40 percent of the state's female inmates out of their cells and into neighborhood correctional centers.

LOS ANGELES -- For more than two decades, if there was a scandal to be snuffed out in Hollywood, private investigator Anthony Pellicano was considered the man for the job.

JERUSALEM -- Doctors removed nearly 2 feet of Ariel Sharon's large intestines Saturday during emergency surgery, his seventh operation since suffering a debilitating stroke last month.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's hard-line president on Saturday accused the United States and Europe of being "hostages of Zionism" and said they should pay a heavy price for the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have triggered worldwide protests.

MANSTON, England -- Fighting through sleep deprivation, severe turbulence and a last gasp emergency landing, Steve Fossett broke the record for the longest nonstop flight in aviation history.