If you were lucky, you had a thin foam mattress pad on your camping bed.

While as many as 120 high school seniors from the class of 2006 await the results of their high school exit exams, the Napa Valley Unified School District is taking an aggressive stance towards making sure students pass the test and get their diplomas.

The family of a man shot to death by a sheriff’s deputy has filed a wrongful death claim against Napa County and the sheriff’s department.

Plans to divide a key piece of land in Capell Valley owned by Napa County Supervisor Harold Moskowite could lead to future development of up to 100 homes, though the lack of available infrastructure will likely keep it in grapes in the near term.

An American Canyon man faced-off against police for 30 minutes early Sunday morning. The standoff ended with American Canyon Police officers taking Marlon Prado, 27, into custody on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon.

In 2002, local voters gave the Napa Valley Unified School District $95 million to modernize its buildings.

Last school year, the state of California required all high school seniors to pass an exit exam in order to receive their diplomas.

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.

WASHINGTON -- Congress embarks this week on the weightiest of debates on morality and the march of science, deciding whether to use public money for embryonic stem cell research and, in turn, setting up President Bush's first veto.

YUCCA VALLEY -- Crews battling wildfires that had destroyed 58 homes and blackened more than 110 square miles faced a threat of thunderstorms Sunday that could produce lightning capable of starting new blazes -- or heavy rain that would flood the newly denuded land.

NEW ORLEANS -- People displaced by future hurricanes will probably not get the $2,000 federal handout that went to Hurricane Katrina and Rita evacuees last year, a top official in the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A man convicted of attempted murder and arson after setting his 6-year-old son on fire faces three new felony charges of threatening a prosecutor, city officials said Sunday.

CHICAGO-- Temperatures soared into the upper 90s and higher Sunday from coast to coast, bringing out heat warnings, wilting athletes and driving others into the shade.