The house on Rubicon Street may look cookie-cutter, but inside sits the home of the Royal Hawaiian Steel Guitar Hall of Fame & Museum.

Legal Aid of Napa Valley announced Monday it is changing executive directors a year after re-establishing its services for seniors, immigrants and low-income groups.

A state appellate court recently declared that California regulators failed to adequately research the environmental impact of pesticides regularly sprayed as part of the state's Pierce's Disease control program.

By DAVID GERMAIN

NEW ORLEANS -- A judge let the federal government Monday drop some 12,000 families made homeless by last year's hurricanes from a program that has been paying directly for their hotel rooms.

WASHINGTON -- With 8- to 12-year-olds dying at a rate of more than one a day in automobile crashes, safety groups are pushing for more youngsters to remain belted in the back seat.

UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N. investigation has found that the United States committed acts amounting to torture at Guantanamo Bay, including force-feeding detainees and subjecting them to prolonged solitary confinement, according to a draft report obtained Monday.