Penelope Spain had the good fortune to come from a supportive family and community. While attending Napa High School, she was in the band, and was also a longtime member of the Silverado Ballet Troupe, a nonprofit organization that tours abroad and performs for low-income communities and orphanages. When she went of to college she received various grants and scholarships from local groups and organizations.

Organizers of Bi-National Health Week in Napa are gearing up for a more than week-long series of events that will give many Latino families access to health care and will touch on women's issues, eating disorders and citizenship. Bi-National Health Week is comprised of six events beginning on Saturday, and extending until Oct. 21.

For the first time in dozens of visits over the years to the nation's capital, Napa flood control officials will have direct contact with Bush administration representatives in their quest to bolster federal funding.

Gasser Foundation's south Napa mega project, the city's biggest commercial and residential development in years, is about to undergo public hearings.

Napa County Fire crews contained a fire that began on Friday morning and burned 400 acres of brush in the hills west of Yountville. Full control of the fire is expected on Tuesday at 8 p.m., according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.

Ginger Jordan, 61, wheezes a bit as she gathers her breath to tell Dale Weide, a registered nurse, about the daily difficulties she faces as result of heart problems, a heart attack and a blood clot in her lung.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Stormy weather blamed for 11 deaths in the Midwest and South subsided on Sunday, though residents in some states remained shut out of their homes due to high waters.

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and her fetus told police she drowned the woman's three young children and stuffed them into a washer and dryer at their apartment, an official said Sunday.

NEW YORK -- In a combative interview on "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton defended his handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, saying he tried to have bin Laden killed and was attacked for his efforts by the same people who now criticize him for not doing enough.

OJAI -- Helicopters lifted off as winds calmed Sunday, ferrying water and transporting firefighters to battle a three-week-old wildfire that has scorched more than 200 square miles of the Los Padres National Forest.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The plan was simple: Iraqi troops would block escape routes while U.S. soldiers searched for weapons house-by-house. But the Iraqi troops didn't show up on time.

WASHINGTON-- Afghan's president asserted on Sunday that Osama bin Laden has not been in his country since being chased out after the Sept. 11 attacks five years ago. But Hamid Karzai acknowledged that the al-Qaida leader's exact location is unknown.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Nearly 500 drug addicts, alcoholics, orphans and vagrants kicked off the Homeless World Cup soccer tournament Sunday, opening a weeklong event aimed at helping society's most marginalized make a new start in life.

WASHINGTON -- Democrats on Sunday seized on an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence that Americans should choose new leadership in the November elections.