Sewer rate hearing Wednesday afternoon

Napa prosecutors were disappointed by the Monday auction of the Napa home of Ivan Jerdev, the former president of embattled Napa adoption firm Yunona USA.

It's been almost a month since Apolinar Rojas and his wife Maria del Rosario Maceda, along with 25 other winery workers, were laid off from their jobs at Charles Krug Winery.

Police have released the name of a "person of interest" in the Sunday shooting of two men in front of a duplex on Trower Avenue and Jefferson Street.

For the first time in more than 20 years, the leader of California's community colleges made a visit to Napa Valley College on Monday.

Vehicles that barrel down Meadowbrook Drive in Browns Valley will now be burdened with certified knowledge that they are speeding.

WASHINGTON -- Women over 18 may soon be able to get the morning-after pill without a prescription. In a surprise decision Monday, health officials revived a long-stalled application to allow over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive.

LOS ANGELES -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced an agreement Monday to bypass the Bush administration and work together to explore ways of fighting global warming.

DENVER -- Standing in a circle, the Heart Beat singers struck a drum in unison. With hundreds of Indians in colorful tribal dress ready to march into the Denver March Pow Wow behind them, the bespectacled Howard Bad Hand began to sing.

SAN DIEGO -- More than 6,000 National Guard troops have been assigned to southwestern border states by the government's Aug. 1 deadline -- though only about half of them are on duty along the border, the Guard said Monday.

NORCO, Calif. -- Teenagers who toilet-papered and damaged a home now face felony vandalism charges because of a mother's extraordinary sleuthing.

SAN FRANCISCO -- A mistrial was declared Monday in the case of a mother whose 12-year-old son was fatally mauled at home by the family's two pit bulls while she was at a school picnic with her daughter.

WASHINGTON -- The prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay during the war on terror have attacked their military guards hundreds of times, turning broken toilet parts, utensils, radios and even a bloody lizard tail into makeshift weapons.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- NATO took over command of insurgency-wracked southern Afghanistan from the United States on Monday, and the top general warned that he will "strike ruthlessly" against Taliban rebels when necessary.

JERUSALEM -- Israel's prime minister declared Monday that there would be no cease-fire with Hezbollah guerrillas, apologizing for the deaths of Lebanese civilians but saying "we will not give up on our goal to live a life free of terror." His Security Cabinet approved widening the ground offensive.

MBUJI-MAYI, Congo -- Polls opened for an extra day Monday in central Congo but it appeared that few took advantage of the second chance to vote in what officials said was a massive boycott called by one candidate.

MEXICO CITY -- Businessman Sigfrido Gunther Benitez wandered in amazement down an eerily quiet eight-lane boulevard that normally pumps a steady stream of traffic through the heart of Mexico City.