Memorial Day Weekend events

Although a decade has passed since Kristin Smart was last seen alive, investigators continue to aggressively work the missing person case, according to San Luis Obispo Undersheriff Steve Bolts.

Terry Black had never met Stan and Denise Smart. But he felt their pain.

For the past 10 years, the Smart family has died a little each day.

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Lake Berryessa, Napa County Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Perry drives to a fight call at Rancho Monticello Resort.

Even as a blanket of clouds hung over most of Napa Valley, Wild Lake shone in the sun, a bright mirror of forest greens. At about 2,500 feet in elevation, the air up there is slightly crisper than on the valley floor. And it's quieter. Grass swishes. Occasionally a leaping fish splashes and songbirds chatter.

WASHINGTON -- The fallout from the killing of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians by Marines could undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq more than the Abu Ghraib prison scandal did, a lawmaker who is a prominent war critic said Sunday.

WASHINGTON -- In a break with his counterparts in the House, the Senate's leader said Sunday the FBI was within its right to search the office of a congressman under investigation in a bribery case.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A dozen bonfires kiss the black expanse of sand like faint stars in the night sky. Small groups stand around the dancing flames, their laughter blending with the sighs of the waves, the rattle of ice chests and a guitar's occasional hum.

BANTUL, Indonesia -- Tens of thousands camped out for a second night Sunday in streets, cassava fields and the paths between rice paddies as the death toll from Indonesia's earthquake topped 4,300.

DILI, East Timor -- Tens of thousands of East Timorese fled their burning capital or sought refuge in churches, embassies and the airport Sunday as gangs terrorized neighborhoods virtually at will. The United Nations evacuated hundreds of employees.