The National Weather Service issued a flood warning on the Napa River at St.

"Spring Into Action" Food Drive

After seven years in Yountville, the Napa Valley Museum wants to build a much larger facility in downtown Napa to celebrate the area's natural and cultural history.

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WASHINGTON -- Fifteen states are urging the Supreme Court to take the unusual step of immediately intervening to resolve a dispute between states and the federal government over the costly new Medicare prescription drug program.

A litter of week-old golden retrievers look more like big hamsters than canines. But these nine tiny balls of fur are a big source of hope for Napa Valley growers whose vineyards are blighted by infestations of vine mealybug.

BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Runoff elections are typically cumbersome processes, taking weeks and sometimes months to determine a winner. Burlington is going to do it all instantly.

A glisten of honeydew on a vine. White waxy slime creeping out from a vine's bark. By the time the human eye spots the signs of the vine mealybug, an infestation is usually well underway.

WASHINGTON -- Russia's emergence as an increasingly authoritarian state could impair U.S.-Russian ability to cooperate on key international security issues, according to an analysis by a major foreign policy organization.

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch on the upper Napa River Saturday afternoon lasting through midnight on Sunday. A vigorous storm that developed over the Eastern Pacific Ocean was expected to drop an inch to 3 inches of rain on the valley.

Suspect tries to launder money from bank robbery

On a chilly Saturday afternoon the boys from a local youth program scored goals both on and off the field at the first-ever CLARO Cup Soccer Tournament at Napa Valley College.

WASHINGTON -- More than a quarter of the $800 million the Bush administration plans to raise by selling national forest would benefit rural schools in Oregon and Washington, though just 6 percent of the sales would occur in those forest-rich states.

LOS ANGELES -- Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman and Paris Hilton won worst-of prizes Saturday at the Razzies, an Academy Awards spoof mocking the worst of 2005.

HAYWARD -- A school district police officer and two security guards were charged Friday in connection with the murder of a 23-year-old man during an argument over a double-parked car, authorities said.

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, down in the popularity polls and trying to regain his support, took up his other persona as a strongman Saturday at his annual bodybuilding competition.

Associated Press Writer

CAIRO, Egypt -- Al-Qaida's No. 2 leader Ayman al-Zawahri criticized the West for its insult to Islam's prophet, complaining in a video broadcast Sunday on Al-Jazeera that the Prophet Mohammed and Jesus "are not sacred anymore."