If you lost everything and had to leave your home, what would you want? For special education teacher Stephanie Solberg, there is a simple answer to that question: a pillow.

Former Assemblywoman Pat Wiggins is emerging as the lone Democratic candidate to replace state Sen. Wes Chesbro, D-Arcata, in the Second District race in the June primary election.

Gary Piner, owner of Piner's Nursing Home in Napa, is upfront about why he's instituting a new anti-crime program at his 45-bed facility: There isn't a crime problem, and he's looking to keep it that way.

A St. Helena winery is being sued by two female farmworkers who say they were driven from their jobs by the sexual advances of their supervisor and coworkers.

For fighter pilots in combat, the choice of fight or flight presents itself constantly. In hindsight, these pilots know it may have been wiser to turn back or fly away from certain danger. Still, it's always the high-risk feats that beckon them and that become their best war stories. Joking with wingmen while dodging enemy fire. Sticking around to shoot down enemy aircraft, even when it was 17 to one. Parachuting away from crashing and burning planes. Surviving stints as prisoners of war.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The church where four black girls died in a racist bombing in 1963 was designated as a national landmark Monday, with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales recalling their memory amid a string of recent attacks against churches in Alabama.

NEWARK, N.J. -- Democratic senators assailed an Arab company's takeover of operations at six major American ports and said Monday that President Bush should stop the deal to better protect the U.S. from terrorists.

McKINNEY, Texas -- A woman accused of killing her 10-month-old daughter felt that God was commanding her to cut off the baby's arms as well as her own limbs, a state psychiatrist testified Monday.

ROME (AP) -- New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art agreed Monday to return antiquities Italy says were looted in exchange for long-term loans of other artifacts -- a precedent archaeologists hope will prompt museums to change their acquisition policies.

SALIDA -- A music producer who gave a ride to the suspect in last week's fatal shooting of a California Highway Patrol officer said he is unfairly being linked to the crime.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Iran backed calls from other Muslim and world leaders Monday for an end to violent protests over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons, urging calm after weeks of demonstrations that have left at least 45 people dead in the Muslim world.