"Everyone's your teammate, everyone's your family," said Napa High's Brittany Barbos, about this season's varsity girls basketball team.

A Napa judge on Wednesday let stand the grand jury indictment of a Napa dentist accused of murdering his estranged wife almost 10 years ago.

Thanks to Northern California's largest solar electric system, Napa Valley College is getting ready to save $300,000 annually on its electric bills.

The city of Napa will use eminent domain powers to buy a small piece of land so that Capitola Drive can be extended to the 25-home Napa Terrace subdivision.

Some doctors may personally support the death penalty, but in Napa and throughout California, the debate over whether they can ethically play a role in putting condemned inmates to death took center stage this week.

SALEM, Ore. -- The Oregon Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a voter-approved property rights law that requires governments to either pay landowners for losses caused by state land-use regulations or waive the regulation and allow development.

WASHINGTON -- Mead Johnson and Co. is recalling about 41,500 cans of its Gentlease powdered infant formula because they may contain small metal particles.

Agency looks into behavior of drunk judge

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Eight workers at a Nebraska meatpacking plant are really bringing home the bacon now: They stepped forward Wednesday to claim the biggest lottery jackpot in U.S. history -- $365 million.

SAN FRANCISCO -- The state's postponement of an execution because no medical professional would take part amounts to a moratorium on capital punishment in California, home to the largest death row, and could have implications for other states that use lethal injection.

SAN DIEGO -- Several Marines have been arrested on charges of working with a group that stole ballistic vests and other gear from Camp Pendleton and sold it on the Internet, authorities said Wednesday.

VALLEJO -- The California Highway Patrol issued an arrest warrant Wednesday for a man who allegedly impersonated a police officer while committing two robberies.

SAN DIEGO -- Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unsealed an indictment charging an environmental activist with teaching others how to start an arson fire.

SACRAMENTO -- Sacramento could suffer catastrophic flooding unless the river levees in the region are repaired quickly, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and other officials warned Wednesday after a helicopter tour.

SAN FRANCISCO -- An unlicensed doctor pleaded not guilty Wednesday to bilking hundreds of immigrants by allegedly performing fake medical exams and injecting them with a saline solution he claimed was a vaccine.

SANTA ANA-- A California Highway Patrol lieutenant and 12 others were charged Wednesday with attempted child molestation for allegedly trying to lure into sexual encounters people they thought were 12- and 13-year-old girls they had met on the Internet.

SACRAMENTO -- California violated the Clean Air Act when it decided nine years ago that no regulations were necessary to cut smog-forming compounds in farm and commercial pesticides, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

SAMARRA, Iraq -- Insurgents posing as police destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's holiest Shiite shrines Wednesday, setting off an unprecedented spasm of sectarian violence. Angry crowds thronged the streets, militiamen attacked Sunni mosques, and at least 19 people were killed.