MONDAY UPDATE -- Fairfield teen drowns at lake Berryessa
The body of a Fairfield teenager who drowned in Lake Berryessa during the Memorial Day weekend was recovered by sheriff’s department dive team on Tuesday morning.
Smart investigation continues after 10 years
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.
$100,000 reward offered
Terry Black had never met Stan and Denise Smart. But he felt their pain.
Stan Smart retires from Napa schools
For more than a quarter of a century, Stan Smart has been an educator, administrator and counselor.
The search for Kristin Smart never ends for her family
For the past 10 years, the Smart family has died a little each day.
Memorial Day madness returns to Lake Berryessa
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon at Lake Berryessa, Napa County Sheriff's Sgt. Chris Perry drives to a fight call at Rancho Monticello Resort.
Big money fuels Calif. politics despite donor limits
SACRAMENTO -- Racetracks and power companies want Jerome Horton on the Board of Equalization. Environmentalists, trial lawyers and nurses are trying to take out state Senate candidate John Dutra. Insurance, real estate and hospital interests are buying airtime on behalf of Assemblyman Ron Calderon, another Senate hopeful.
Napa Valley Vintners gear up for 26th annual charity auction
After fine-tuning last year' 25th anniversary remodel, members of Napa Valley Vintners are putting the finishing touches on plans for this year's Auction Napa Valley taking place Saturday at St. Helena's Meadowood Resort.
A solemn ceremony at Napa's Legion
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Napa Valley Land Trust sets sights on $20 million-dollar Wildlake Ranch
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.
Paying tribute to friends they've lost
A gentle wind rustled the leaves of trees towering above the many gravestones at Veterans Home of California's cemetery Monday morning. Down below, a crowd of veterans, motorcycle-club members, politicians and families honored the 5,100 brave men and women who lie in the cemetery -- and the thousands of individuals around the nation who have made the ultimate sacrifice for their country.
Two CBS crew members killed in Iraq bombing
NEW YORK -- Cameraman Paul Douglas had spent more than a decade covering the world's hot spots for CBS News. Freelance soundman James Brolan was part of a CBS team honored for its dispatches on the earthquake in Pakistan. Correspondent Kimberly Dozier had reported on the deteriorating situation in Iraq for nearly three years.
Clerks take the heat from drivers fired up by gas prices
LOS ANGELES -- Tempers are rising along with gas prices. Gas stations across the country report that drivers are taking out their gas rage against big oil by yelling at clerks and cashiers and sometimes driving off without paying.
Quake death toll rises to 4,300
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.
Anti-foreigner rioting spreads through Kabul after traffic accident involving U.S. troops
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Violent anti-foreigner protests raged across the capital Monday after a U.S. military truck crashed into traffic, touching off the worst rioting since the Taliban's ouster. At least eight people died and 107 were injured before Kabul's streets calmed.
Scores of defiant Guantonamo prisoners stage hunger strike
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has ballooned from three to around 75, the U.S. military said Monday, revealing growing defiance among prisoners held for up to 4 1/2 years with no end in sight.