The Napa Senior Center, 1500 Jefferson St., will host a free health fair Monday, 8:30-11:30 a.m.

This growing season grape farmers have a new and organic weapon in their ongoing war against exotic and troublesome Argentine ants.

Saying it has found the formula for artistic and financial success, the Napa Valley Opera House will be asking the public to wipe out the last of its construction debt.

If there's any good news about the businesses of newspapering these days, it can be found at the industry's littlest papers, which are doing well even as their bigger brothers founder.

In the wake of a strange interaction between a male adult driver and two young girls on Thursday, the Napa County Sheriff's Department is looking deeper into a report of a suspicious man driving an older Mercedes Benz around the Vichy Avenue area.

WASHINGTON -- It felt like a hard-boiled egg to 17-year-old Anna Rediger, and looked a bit like cauliflower. But in her gloved hand was a piece of a sheep's brain, which she had scraped, sliced and probed to learn how the organ -- and, by extension, a human brain -- is designed.

Three people were hurt when two pickups crashed on Highway 29 at Zinfandel Lane on Friday morning.

County law enforcement officers discovered more than a dozen weapons and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in the home of a Yountville man, according to a Napa Special Investigation Bureau release issued Friday.

The pressure to improve academic standards at public schools brought unrest to Vintage High School on Friday, as students demonstrated against curriculum changes that may de-emphasize arts classes and other electives.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- The U.S. began a series of secret hearings Friday to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders at its prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be declared "enemy combatants" who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals.

WASHINGTON -- The nation's top two law enforcement officials acknowledged Friday the FBI broke the law to secretly pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed to prevent further illegal intrusions.

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court overturned the District of Columbia's long-standing handgun ban Friday, rejecting the city's argument that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applied only to militias.

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- One of two 4-year-old girls shot in the head in what authorities believe was a gang-related shooting has died.

BERKELEY -- The Berkeley City Council is considering signing on to an international lawsuit that seeks a war crimes investigation of top U.S. defense officials.

SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Taunted by leftist President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, President Bush on Friday rejected accusations of U.S. neglect in Latin America. Bush celebrated an alternative-fuels pact with Brazil as proof.

VIENNA, Austria -- The international community is making significant strides toward ridding northern Afghanistan of opium, a U.S. counter-narcotics official said Friday, despite setbacks in the Taliban-controlled south and forecasts of another record year of poppy cultivation.