While one election is behind us, campaign season is just beginning for a small group of people around Napa County preparing to run for municipal council seats up and down the valley.

Napa prosecutors are looking to the sale of a local house later this month to provide hundreds of thousands of dollars in reimbursement for victims of a defunct Napa adoption firm.

Doug Koford continues his duties as American Canyon's police chief as he prepares himself to become the county's new sheriff.

Food distribution for low income residents

A morning burglary landed a 24-year-old Napa man in jail Saturday.

By JAY GOETTING

If brothers Robert and Peter Mondavi had always seen eye to eye, who knows what America's place in the wine world would be today.

HOUSTON — Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay, who was convicted of helping perpetuate one of the most sprawling business frauds in U.S. history, died Wednesday of a heart attack in Colorado. He was 64.

MOUNT ST. HELENS, Wash. -- For all the talks interpretive guide Nick Racine has given to visitors about this volcano, standing on the crater rim and watching as the mountain pumps out tons of rock in its own rebirth left him nearly speechless.

HOUSTON -- Separated from the international space station, their heat shielding inspected one last time for damage and all their goals accomplished, the astronauts of the space shuttle Discovery were ready to come home Saturday.

SACRAMENTO -- California lawmakers are betting that voters eager to avoid a Katrina-style disaster will rally behind a $4.1 billion bond on the November ballot to shore up the state's fragile levees.

YUCCA VALLEY -- Nearly 4,000 firefighters worked in blistering heat Saturday to corral a huge complex of fires in rugged wilderness and keep them from threatening desert and mountain communities.

BOMBAY, India -- India warned Saturday that attacks like the deadly Bombay train bombings are jeopardizing its peace process with nuclear rival Pakistan, and demanded an "unambiguous" response from the Group of Eight summit.

MEXICO CITY -- The stock market is dropping. Protesters are marching on the capital. Citizens are lighting candles in hopes of divine intervention.

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution Saturday condemning North Korea's recent missile tests and demanding that the reclusive communist nation suspend its ballistic missile program.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- In a chilly summit prelude, President Bush blocked Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization on Saturday and President Vladimir Putin mockingly said Moscow doesn't want the kind of violence-plagued democracy the United States has fostered in Iraq.

BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Israel intensified its air assault on Lebanon on Saturday, striking Hezbollah strongholds, bombing central Beirut for the first time, and pounding seaports and a key bridge as it tightened a noose around this reeling nation.