Disaster training offered

I refuse to believe I brought this horrific weather pattern with me.

William Hanken of Nova Scotia received an early morning jolt in his Napa hotel room at the corner of First and Main streets. The south brick wall of the neighboring Opera House crashed through the roof and into his room right around 5:15 a.m.

The developer of a proposed 44-home subdivision in Browns Valley insists his plan conforms to city requirements and the desires of buyers in today's real estate market.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A century later, the people who felt the ground rock that Wednesday morning tell the story best.

Strutting her stuff as a fashion model was perhaps the last thing on Connie Schmitt's mind when she first learned she had cancer, but what a difference a year makes. Schmitt beat sarcoma, a type of cancer that attacks the soft tissue of the body, and was among the 45 cancer-survivors-turned-models at Queen of the Valley Foundation's Reach for the Stars event Saturday.