The ComingUp calendar listings on Thursday omitted an item.

With Democrats back in control of Congress after more than a decade, Rep. Mike Thompson, D-St. Helena, has a newly-appointed chief of staff, Charles Jefferson, based close to the halls of power in Washington, D.C.

Thirty-four years ago, Sarah Weddington was a 27-year-old lawyer who had tried uncontested divorces and little else, when she won the case that legalized abortion in the United States before the U.S. Supreme Court.

The $463.5 billion spending bill the House passed Wednesday killed off $11 million in funding for the Napa flood control project.

Sheriff’s investigators are aggressively working to solve the homicide of 16-year-old Anthony Gee.

6 p.m. A Vintage High School graduate who killed his estranged girlfriend with a hammer in Oceanside, four months after she had a protective order against him lifted, was sentenced today to 16 years to life in prison.

Hundreds of Napa High students gathered in grief as they dealt with the news that their beloved dance teacher, Kris Van Treese, had passed away Thursday.

12:45 p.m. AUSTIN, Texas -- Gov. Rick Perry signed an order Friday making Texas the first state to require that schoolgirls be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.

9 a.m. WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration, under pressure from a Democratic-controlled Congress to do something about America’s soaring trade deficit, filed a trade case Friday against China in a dispute involving government subsidies.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives Thursday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 150, police said.

SAN FRANCISCO — California Attorney General Jerry Brown said Thursday he will move ahead with a lawsuit that accuses the six largest American and Japanese automakers of damaging the environment by producing vehicles that contribute to global warming.

PARIS  — A long-awaited report says global warming is “very likely” man-made, the most powerful language ever used on the issue by the world’s leading climate scientists, delegates who have seen the report said Thursday.

LOS ANGELES — Federal prosecutors have said they may sue Paramount Pictures and the Los Angeles Times over a promotion for last year’s “Mission: Impossible III.”

7 a.m. PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. -- A new pair of hands pulled Punxsutawney Phil from his stump this year, so it was only fitting that the groundhog offered a new prediction.

10:45 a.m. WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.

10:30 a.m. LADY LAKE, Fla. -- Storms carrying the state’s deadliest tornado in a decade cut a path across central Florida early Friday, killing at least 14 people, damaging hundreds of homes and littering fields with clothes, furniture and splintered lumber.

SAN FRANCISCO — A city accustomed to seeing it all gaped, and then shrugged, Thursday after its dashing young mayor confessed to having an affair with a former secretary, who happened to be the wife of his campaign manager.

PHOENIX — Parents are waking up through the night to check on their little girls, sleeping alongside them in their beds and even using heavy furniture to block the windows.

7:10 a.m. WASHINGTON -- The nation's unemployment rate climbed to a four-month high of 4.6 percent as somewhat wary employers added fewer new jobs in January. Wage gains were more modest.