Patients at St. Helena Hospital no longer have to travel long distances to get a combination CT and PET scan -- now it comes to them.

The wine grape is still king in Napa County.

Napa County Supervisors have given their blessing to the Salvation Army in its quest for a new canteen vehicle, but not before the board was satisfied it was not violating the separation of church and state.

California Highway Patrol officers have released the name of the man who lost his life in motorcycle wreck Wednesday.

More than 200 members of the legal and political community showed up Thursday afternoon to wish Napa Superior Court Judge Rodney Stone well as he embarks on his judicial career as Napa's newest jurist.

In the United States:

At the age of 27, B. Ballantine's son could no longer repress or hide that he had been sexually abused as a young teen.

MIAMI -- British music producer Adam Kidron says that when he came up with the idea of a Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem, he saw it as an ode to the millions of immigrants seeking a better life.

WASHINGTON -- Congress considered billions of dollars in new taxes on oil companies Thursday, looking for ways to punish the cash-rich industry and soothe growing anger over high gasoline prices.

NEW YORK -- After months of disputes over the future of ground zero, state and city officials finally brought in the heavy equipment and began construction Thursday on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower that will rise on the site of the World Trade Center.

WASHINGTON -- A Senate inquiry into the government's Hurricane Katrina failures ripped the Bush administration anew Thursday and urged the scrapping of the nation's disaster response agency. But with a new hurricane season just weeks away, senators conceded that few if any of their proposals could become reality in time.

SACRAMENTO -- State senators on Thursday endorsed Monday's boycott of schools, jobs and stores by illegal immigrants and their allies as supporters equated the protest with great social movements in American history.