St. Helena asks for voluntary water cutbacks

Early public reaction to a Pacific Union College proposal to build nearly 600 new dwellings in the small mountain community led university officials to add even more to a plan they say may not be in its final form until 2008.

Bob Barnes has job security -- thanks to those responsible for the resurgence of graffiti that has flared up recently.

Napa Valley College needs an extra $70 million to complete the wish list voters approved four years ago, because of unanticipated higher construction costs, according to the college.

WASHINGTON -- Liberals looking to Democrats for big spending increases in the new Congress -- in education programs such as Head Start, for example -- will come away disappointed with some of the choices being made in dividing up money for the rest of this year.

PHOENIX -- Leaders in a northern Arizona town hope to discourage illegal immigrants from living in their community through a proposal that would strip employers and landlords of their business licenses if they hire or rent to illegal border-crossers.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- In perhaps the boldest and most sophisticated attack in four years of warfare, gunmen speaking English, wearing U.S. military uniforms and carrying American weapons abducted four U.S. soldiers last week at the provincial headquarters in the Shiite holy city of Karbala and then shot them to death.

FORT RILEY, Kan. -- The Iraqi army will have enough equipment and strength to allow most U.S. troops to withdraw by 2008, Iraq's army chief said Friday.

WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Iraq is a clear sign the newly empowered Democratic Congress is not going to abide by the notion that foreign policy is the sole province of the White House.

HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- The only U.S. military officer charged with a crime in the Abu Ghraib scandal will be court-martialed on eight charges, including cruelty and maltreatment of prisoners, the Army said Friday.