Calistoga is preparing to celebrate with a bit of pizzazz during its sixth annual Cinco de Mayo Parade and Festival Sunday. Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Downtown Calistoga to soak up some Mexican culture and marvel at the dozens of floats.

A replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, more commonly known as "The Wall," is at the Veterans Home of California at Yountville through 2 p.m. Monday.

County officials say the Napa River between Lincoln Avenue and Trancas Street is back to its old self again after a sewage spill fouled waters there two weeks ago.

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For four nights starting Sunday, southbound Highway 29 traffic over the Butler Bridge will be detoured onto Imola Avenue and then Highway 221.

Five months after a flood drove hundreds from their homes and wreaked millions of dollars in damages, many people may not be jumping to celebrate the Napa River.

A man was stabbed several times at a Napa apartment complex parking lot on Thursday afternoon.

"It's my first time seeing it and it's kind of hard."

ATLANTA -- Protesters repeatedly interrupted Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld during a speech Thursday and one man, a former CIA analyst, accused him of lying about Iraq prewar intelligence in an unusually vociferous display of anti-war sentiment.

WASHINGTON -- While removing enough debris to cover Britain, contractors working on hurricane recovery have overbilled the government in a $63 billion operation that only will get more expensive, according to a House report Thursday.

BOSTON -- The same court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage is now mulling whether citizens have the right to get around its ruling by amending the state constitution to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.

BOSTON -- The Big Dig -- the $14.6 billion downtown highway project infamous for its cost overruns, traffic jams and leaky tunnels -- can add a federal investigation to its list of woes.

TRACY -- Chevy's Fresh Mex restaurant fired eight employees who skipped work to attend an immigration rally, prompting four other workers to quit in protest.

PITTSBURGH -- A truck driver was charged with vehicular homicide Thursday after police concluded he failed to properly secure a wood-chipper that came loose from his truck and crashed into a minivan carrying a man and his 4-year-old triplets.

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SACRAMENTO -- About 11 percent of this year's senior class has not yet passed the high school exit exam and won't be able to graduate on time, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell reported Thursday.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A key witness in a gang murder case was shot and killed by masked men Thursday when he dropped off his van at an auto repair shop, authorities said.

NEW YORK -- A Long Island politician sued Google Inc. on Thursday claiming the search engine leader is profiting from illegal child pornography.

LOS ANGELES -- A San Bernardino measure that would prohibit landlords from renting to illegal immigrants and force day laborers to prove legal residency to work has qualified for a special election, a city official said Thursday.

SACRAMENTO -- Nearly two months after negotiations broke down, lawmakers made another attempt Thursday to approve a massive public works bond package that would fund transportation projects, school construction, flood control and affordable housing.

VILNIUS, Lithuania -- Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday accused Russia of cracking down on religious and political rights and using its energy reserves as "tools of intimidation or blackmail." It was a hard slap at Vladimir Putin as the United States seeks Russia's cooperation in punishing Iran.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is shown wearing American tennis shoes and unable to operate his automatic rifle in video released Thursday by the U.S. military as part of a propaganda war aimed at undercutting the image of the terrorist leader.