Measure G

Vanessa Aguiniga wants to be an attorney. Last week, however, she found herself on the wrong side of the law.

Albertsons supermarket is recalling all of the fresh ground beef sold Saturday at the chain’s California Boulevard store in Napa.

Ben Anderson has been on the American Canyon City Council ever since there has been an American Canyon City Council. But after nearly 15 years, he is now counting down his last days in office.

Life was simpler for Jennifer Hargis three weeks ago, before doctors at Queen of the Valley Hospital diagnosed her with Type 2 diabetes. Hargis’ feelings of fatigue and numbness prompted her to get checked out, she said.

Ann Whitlock examines a problem with an absentee ballot during the sorting of some 11,000 Napa County absentee ballots received by the county’s elections department.

Polling places across Napa County had long waits and lines Tuesday night, partly due to voter turnout and partly due to a long, complicated ballot.

Napa City Councilman Harry Martin in is running third in a race for two seats in early results. Peter Mott leads, with Juliana Inman a close second.

Measure G, the $183 million Napa and American Canyon school bond, had 57 percent of the vote in early going, just 2 points more than necessary.

Newcomer Ed West and council veteran Cecil Shaver led a field of seven candidates for American Canyon City Council in early results.

Napa County Measure I, which would create a county parks district, had just 51 percent of the vote in early results. A bare majority wins in this hotly contested race.

Two Calistoga City Council incumbents were behind early Tuesday night, as vineyard manager Placido Garcia-Hernandez and Fire Chief Gary Kraus led a field of five.

Three Yountville Town Council members, mayoral candidate Cynthia Saucerman and council candidates Joseph Dunbar and Bill Dutton, led in early results.

After months of prognosticating from pundits, the actual voters are just about done weighing in.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Iraq war and congressional scandals hurt Republican candidates in the midterm elections, as the GOP lost the advantage on their central issue of terrorism, exit polls found.

CAMP PENDLETON — A Marine pleaded guilty Monday to aggravated assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice before testifying that his squad was ordered to execute a known insurgent who turned out to be a civilian.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans still will be chewing over election results Wednesday morning when the nine Supreme Court justices file into their courtroom for two of the biggest cases of the young term.

While new voting machines confounded some poll workers, reports of dirty tricks and voter intimidation surfaced across the nation Tuesday, prompting federal investigations in at least two states.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Resurgent Democrats swept toward control of the House and grabbed Republican Senate seats in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Rhode Island on Tuesday in elections shaped by an unpopular war in Iraq and scandal at home.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A round-the-clock curfew imposed in the capital ahead of Saddam Hussein’s conviction and death sentence eased on Monday, with residents once more allowed to walk the streets and sidewalks of their city. Around the country, jubilant Shiites celebrated the verdict, as Sunnis held defiant counter-demonstrations.

WASHINGTON — Sidelined for 12 years, Democrats fiercely fought scandal-scarred Republicans for control of the House on Tuesday as Americans voted their frustration with the Iraq war and President Bush.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger claimed a second term Tuesday with a decisive victory over Democrat Phil Angelides, capping a yearlong comeback in which he admitted mistakes, boomeranged back to the political center and spotlighted his celebrity to win appeal across the voter spectrum.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans struggled Wednesday to prevent a Democratic takeover of the Senate after losing GOP-held seats in Ohio, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania.

SEATTLE  — A windy Pacific storm dumped heavy rain Monday on western Washington, killing at least one person, prompting warnings of record flooding and forcing rescues by the National Guard.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Daniel Ortega, the revolutionary Marxist who battled a U.S.-backed Contra insurgency in the 1980s, was closing in on Nicaragua’s presidency, appearing Monday to have defeated four opponents with promises that he was a changed man.

WASHINGTON — Democrats fought Republicans for control of the Senate Tuesday in Virginia, Ohio and half a dozen other battleground states as incumbents in both parties coasted to re-election in early returns.

Amendments to ban gay marriage won approval Tuesday in three states — including Wisconsin, where gay-rights activists had nursed hopes of engineering the first defeat of such a ban.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A ballot initiative that would give California some of the nation’s toughest restrictions on sexual predators, including limiting where they could live, was ahead in early returns Tuesday.

Effective Nov. 9, the burn ban will be lifted in six Northern Counties, including Napa.

Napa Valley residents can receive live local election results by TV, radio and newspaper Web site tonight.