The city wants to upgrade its 911 dispatch center so it can directly receive police, fire and medical emergency calls from cellular phones.

Napa is planning four months of hearings and community meetings leading to the potential adoption in May of a new redevelopment project to rejuvenate Soscol Avenue.

At the innocent age of 13, Chiara Baldanza was introduced to some of the harshest realities of today’s world, and discovered ways she can help.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — The issue of U.S. troop levels echoed from Baghdad to Washington on Thursday, with Sen. John McCain calling for the deployment of 15,000 to 30,000 more troops to Iraq, and the Army’s top general warning that his force “will break” without thousands more active duty soldiers and greater use of the reserves.

SAN ANTONIO — U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumors.

SAN DIEGO — Millions of illegal immigrants toil in America’s factories, farms, homes and restaurants. Few get caught. Even fewer employers get charged with a crime.

HAVANA — Cuba vowed to defy U.S. efforts for economic and political change on the island in a front-page editorial Thursday in the Communist Party’s newspaper that also referred to dissidents as “mercenaries” and “counterrevolutionary puppies.”

Need a free flu shot? Are you 18 or older? Today public health officials are testing the county’s first emergency vaccination drill and up to 1,000 free doses of flu vaccine will be given out in four hours.

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"Fifty is the new 40. That's my mantra," said Mike Basayne of Napa, who turns 50 on Jan. 19. This mantra is one frequently held among the last third of the baby boom generation who live in Napa. People turning 50 today feel their best days are yet to come. With age comes wisdom and a better understanding of the world, they feel.