Eight years after the Napa murder of a Kenya native, a former Napa woman was in court on Tuesday afternoon after being arrested on a warrant for felony accessory to the cold case homicide.

Imagine practicing and competing in your rival team's home turf. That's exactly what Vintage High School's boys and girls water sports teams have had to do for the past 27 years.

County supervisors are floating a trial balloon to see if they can reach a compromise between agricultural interests and those who like to give tourists an above-ground view of Napa Valley.

John Caldwell, president of Caldwell Winery, considers it a gift that Dale Troup was able to walk away from the scene after his cement truck fell 100 feet off an rural embankment last August while Troup delivered a load of cement to Caldwell's winery.

Cartoonist Phil Frank comes to Napa

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Tuesday that American forces will remain in Iraq for years and it will be up to a future president to decide when to bring them all home. But defying critics and plunging polls, he declared, "I'm optimistic we'll succeed. If not, I'd pull our troops out."

WASHINGTON -- President Bush says he's spending his remaining "political capital" on the war in Iraq. The trouble is, he may have little left.

CHICAGO -- Treating a mother's depression can help prevent it and other disorders in her child, say researchers in a provocative study that may influence family health care.

HELENA, Mont. -- Motorists entering Helena are greeted by a billboard showing a huge photo of a filthy public toilet and the message: "No one thinks they'll lose their virginity here. Meth will change that."

WASHINGTON -- Taxpayers not paying attention to the forms prepared for them by commercial tax preparers could soon find their personal financial information being sold more widely to data brokers and marketers.

FORT MEADE, Md. -- An Army dog handler at Abu Ghraib was convicted Tuesday of tormenting prisoners with his snarling animal and competing with a comrade to make the Iraqis soil themselves.

SACRAMENTO -- Less than a third of California schools have met the state's achievement goals, but a majority of them continue to make progress, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell said Tuesday.

MEXICO CITY -- Violent protests have driven away corporate investment in desperately needed municipal water systems in developing nations. So the world's poor buy bottled water from Coke, Pepsi and other multinational companies.

LONDON-- The experimental drug that caused convulsions and organ failure in the first humans it was tested on only left monkeys with swollen glands, and there was nothing to predict the disastrous effects on people, the drug company's chief scientist said Tuesday.

LATRUN JUNCTION, Israel -- With sirens wailing and blue lights flashing, Israeli police chased a van with explosives on a main highway Tuesday and captured a group of Palestinians who defense officials say planned a major bombing ahead of national elections.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- About 100 masked gunmen stormed a prison near the Iranian border Tuesday, cutting phone wires, freeing all the inmates and leaving behind a scene of devastation and carnage -- 20 dead policemen, burned-out cars and a smoldering jailhouse.