From Register Staff

Adam Housley did some serious soul searching in the spring of 1997. The search led him from playing baseball to witnessing hurricanes and a prison execution.

Napa now has twice as good of a chance of winning the annual Joe DiMaggio baseball tournament this weekend.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Randy Moss walked behind the counter in a pinstripe suit with a red striped tie, traded his jacket for an apron, took off his sunglasses and went to work — as the owner of a new fruit-juice store.

From The Associated Press

IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Dressed in a blue-and-black wetsuit to guard against the water's chill, Carol Mickey stood next to a giant inflatable raft and eyed the roiling Clear Creek water with a flutter of trepidation and excitement.

* Napa River

SAN FRANCISCO -- A convicted poacher accused of selling prized shellfish to a Chinese restaurant and divers accused of illegally harvesting the mollusks from the Northern California coast were arrested Thursday in a statewide crackdown on rare fish poaching.