Citing design and fire response concerns in Browns Valley, the Napa City Council decided late Tuesday night to delay a decision on the proposed 43-home Carmel Drive subdivision until early next year.

The Napa County Hispanic Network is preparing to dish out $20,000 in scholarship funds Friday night at its 23rd annual Scholarship Banquet.

A Richmond man was taken to the hospital with major injuries when his motorcycle was hit by a big rig Monday night.

The county car driven by Napa County District Attorney Gary Lieberstein became the center of attention at Tuesday's Napa County Board of Supervisors meeting.

The city of Napa's wine and tourism credentials soared last week with the formal opening of Starmont winery on Stanly Lane.

CHICAGO -- Can drinking green tea really protect against two big killers, strokes and cancer? A huge study in Japan suggests yes and no: It might lower your stroke risk but won't save you from cancer.

WASHINGTON -- Nonlethal weapons such as high-power microwave devices should be used on American citizens in crowd-control situations before they are used on the battlefield, the Air Force secretary said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON -- Republicans and Democrats tore into each over war policy Tuesday, set off by a presidential speech the White House insisted was nonpolitical. A GOP leader said Democrats seemed "more interested in protecting the terrorists" than shielding fellow Americans.

LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan girls entering the sixth grade next year would have to be vaccinated against cervical cancer under legislation backed Tuesday by a bipartisan group of female lawmakers.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush dispatched the vice president and top aides to the Capitol on Tuesday to try to break an election-season deadlock with Republicans over the surveillance and prosecution of terrorism suspects.

Moderate Republican Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who has bucked President Bush on tax cuts and the war in Iraq, defeated a conservative challenger Tuesday in a contest crucial to the larger fight for control of Congress.

'Under the Wire'

TORONTO -- John Lennon joked that since he was a schoolboy he'd always gotten in trouble, maybe because he just had a look about him.

NEW YORK -- In dramatizing how our government's mistakes and negligence helped pave the way for disaster five years ago, "The Path to 9/11" was meant to be a wake-up call for viewers.

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THURSDAY

REGENSBURG, Germany -- Pope Benedict XVI said Tuesday that Islamic holy war was against God's nature and invited Muslims to join in a peaceful cultural dialogue.

SAN'A, Yemen -- A stampede broke out Tuesday in a stadium packed with thousands of people for an election campaign rally for Yemen's president, killing at least 51 people and injuring more than 200, including youths bused in for the event.

DAMASCUS, Syria -- Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy on Tuesday, exchanging fire outside the compound's walls with gunmen who shouted "God is great" and tried to storm in with automatic weapons and hand grenades.