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A planned $7 million public market on First Street won plaudits and easy approval from the Napa Planning Commission Thursday night.

From his San Quentin jail cell, Brian Hust says he knows what he wants to do with the rest of his life. He wants to be a drug addiction counselor. It took a head-on crash where he killed a Suisun City woman 16 months ago to bring him to that decision.

Confronted with stagnant attendance and tough financial realities, Copia is kicking its campaign to find a recipe for success into high gear.

After a six-day trial and two days of deliberation, a jury found Brian Hust guilty of involuntary manslaughter. When the verdict was read, Hust's family, who had been present throughout the court proceedings, cried and hugged each other.

Jeans, football jerseys, floral print tops and other fashion choices are off-limits for Redwood Middle School students.

When Mayra Martinez, 14, picks out what she's going to wear each morning, she does so more cautiously than most. Members of her extended family are involved in gangs, she said, so she watches carefully what colors are chosen.

NEW ORLEANS -- Ray Heisser misses the surprise visits.

NEW YORK -- Assailed for its many missteps in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the American Red Cross is plunging into a daunting, two-track effort to overhaul its entire disaster response system and the often cumbersome way it governs itself.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- A high school senior whose SAT was incorrectly scored low is suing the board that oversees the exam and the testing company that was hired.

BATAVIA, Ohio -- Nearly 30,000 pictures of Matt Maupin are circulating around Iraq, a loving effort by his parents to locate the only U.S. soldier still listed as missing since his capture two years ago.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush blamed Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid on Saturday for the potentially fatal blow dealt to compromise immigration legislation.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush declassified sensitive intelligence in 2003 and authorized its public disclosure to rebut Iraq war critics, but he did not specifically direct that Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, be the one to disseminate the information, an attorney knowledgeable about the case said Saturday.

SAN FRANCISCO -- As organizers prepared for the centennial of the nation's oldest Japanese-American community, some worried that Japantown's birthday bash could become its memorial service.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Google Inc.'s plan to provide free wireless Internet access throughout the city is raising concerns among privacy advocates worried about the prospect of "Big Brother" monitoring how and where users surf the Web.

FRESNO -- For California farmers, water problems usually mean too little rain, not too much.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services.

VERACRUZ, Mexico -- About 200 people marched in the eastern Mexican city of Poza Rica to demand justice for newspaper editor Raul Gibb on the anniversary of his death on Saturday.