Not only do Autumn Chute and Moxie Stratton get their gas for free, but their car exhaust smells like comfort food -- French fries or egg rolls, sometimes fish and chips. It depends what food was fried in the vegetable oil before they pump the fluid into their fuel tanks.

A Vallejo teenager allegedly had more than keys, change and lipstick in her purse when police officers stopped the car she was riding in an American Canyon mobile home park.

Opportunities to celebrate the planet's beauty and learn how to be more earth-friendly will abound during Earth Day 2006 Saturday at Skyline Park.

Seventh anniversary of massacre

Converting a diesel engine to run on vegetable oil may sound simple to the mechanically inclined, but many people who choose to go veggie hire a professional to make the switch.

Everyone's wondering whether President George W. Bush will drive or fly into the Napa Valley on Friday. And if he flies, where will he land?

Police arrested a Napa man Thursday morning and charged him with homicide in the 1997 murder of a Kenya native at a party near Napa High School.

HARTSVILLE, S.C. -- Neighborhood teenagers called him Uncle Kenny, the wiry man whose trailer sat on a junk-strewn lot behind thick pines and a "No Trespassing" sign where the paved road turns to dirt.

Seventh anniversary of massacre celebrated in different ways

RANCHO CORDOVA -- A day before President Bush arrives in California, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday said he will complain to the president that his request for federal help to repair the state's levees has so far failed to yield results.

RESENDE, Brazil -- As Iran faces international pressure over developing the raw material for nuclear weapons, Brazil is quietly preparing to open its own uranium-enrichment center, capable of producing exactly the same fuel.

MORIOKA, Japan -- A former Japanese soldier was reunited with relatives Thursday, the first time he had seen them since he went off to fight for the emperor more than 60 years ago.