Get ready for Grad Night '06

Walking into her office at St. John's Catholic School, you'd think Nancy Jordan has been the principal for years. The walls are covered in colorful posters made for her by school children. The bookshelf is jam-packed full of curriculum books. But looks can deceive.

Much of the debate regarding Napa County's transportation tax proposal, Measure H, centers around plans to improve Jamieson Canyon Road, a key corridor between Napa and Solano counties. But most of the money from the measure would go elsewhere.

As a young Marine Corps grunt during the Vietnam war John Montelli fought an enemy that was elusive and hard to recognize. Today Montelli, 58, is fighting a similarly tricky enemy that comes without warning and attacks his nervous system.

A Napa man's trip to his estranged girlfriend's residence landed him in jail Friday night.

For the second year, Copia's south parking lot is bursting into color as dozens of artists create vibrant, larger-than life chalk paintings on the asphalt.

NEW YORK -- Oklahoma, Mississippi and the Mountain states have set the pace in increasing the imprisonment of women, while several Northeastern states are curtailing the practice, according to a new report detailing sharp regional differences in the handling of female offenders.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- When 17-year-old Reyniza Sherrell was handed her high school diploma, two of her family members watched with admiration -- from thousands of miles away.

HOLMES MILL, Ky. -- An explosion in an eastern Kentucky coal mine killed five miners Saturday, Gov. Ernie Fletcher said. A sixth miner was able to walk away from the blast and out of the mine on his own.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Jassim al-Kinani, a 34-year-old car mechanic, did all he could to follow Shiite Muslim traditions when his brother and three cousins were slain.