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News for Tuesday, February 21, 2006

AmCan teacher and students craft pillows to send to hurricane victims

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.

Wiggins gets key support for Senate

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.

Nursing home launches new anti-crime effort

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.

Farmworkers sue Krug for harassment

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.

Veteran pilots share memories in Yountville

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.

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