It was Maureen Cox's 12th surgical mission to a developing country with volunteer medical teams from Interplast, but the Napa nurse said it still tugged at her heartstrings.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Each time the 3-year-old gets in the bathtub, she thinks she's going to drown. Monica whimpers when her grandmother turns on the faucet, sobbing softly at first, then wailing as the tub begins to fill.

Despite its substantial height, Napa planning commissioners would welcome a proposed five-story luxury hotel in downtown with open arms.

Gravemarkers, don't usually get around much, but in the last 115 years three wooden 'tombstones' have made the trip from Calistoga to a barn near Guerneville to an evening on display at the Napa Senior Activities Center and back to Calistoga.

It’s not every day that a U.S. president visits Napa County, and when President George W. Bush vacationed in St. Helena over the weekend he shook things up a bit.