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Misael Rosales, 55, feels he's getting too old to look for a part-time job to augment his full-time one -- but that's what he feels he has to do to feed his truck's eight cylinders.

Flood control officials have abandoned the fiction that central Napa can have full flood protection by 2011. The new estimated completion date has been pushed back four years to 2015.

If American Canyon's political sign law is illegal, what does that mean for other nearby jurisdictions?

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.

Every time Glenn Picard heard or read about climate change, he pondered switching to a cleaner-burning fuel.

Paul Maguire, who in recent weeks won a lawsuit against American Canyon related to his failed 2006 bid for mayor, has separately turned in campaign finance documents revealing that he spent nearly $59,000 of his own money in two runs for office in 2006.

Residents around the area of Vichy Avenue can breathe a sigh of relief today. The Napa County Sheriff's Department announced Saturday that they called off an investigation into a man who asked two young girls to help him dry his vehicle, prompting them to call the cops.

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A woman who stole from a patient in a nursing home where she works was ordered to make potpourri-filled vases for a senior center.

Marlene Freed knows what's coming. For 10 minutes, she has been lying on her back, with ice chilling the swollen tissue around a seven-inch scar on her right leg -- the spot where doctors inserted her new titanium knee.

NEW YORK -- During a class discussion on adolescence, a high school teacher recently asked her students whether they go on dates. We don't "date," the 12th graders reported. We "hook up."

SACRAMENTO -- The Navy is investigating the apparent theft of a hard drive containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information for nearly 1,300 California National Guard troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border.

LUBBOCK, Texas -- A woman posing as a medical worker kidnapped a three-day-old infant from a hospital early Saturday, police said.

WASHINGTON -- The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.

COLUMBIA, S.C. -- James Brown's body was placed in a crypt Saturday at the Beech Island home of one his daughters, family and friends of the soul singer said.

BAGHDAD -- In their first direct talks since the Iraq war began, U.S. and Iranian envoys traded harsh words and blamed each other for the country's crisis Saturday at a one-day international conference that some hoped would help end their 27-year diplomatic freeze.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay -- President Bush claimed progress on trade with Uruguay's president on Saturday, courting another leftist leader on his Latin American tour. "We care about the human condition," Bush said, trying to co-opt the populism of one influential leftist rival he won't meet: Venezuela's firebrand, Hugo Chavez.

SANTA ANA -- The founder of a charity for the families of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has been arrested for investigation of drunken driving, a sheriff's sergeant said Friday.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Thousands of Christian teenagers rallying this weekend against the moral corruption they see afflicting their generation are finding their agenda at odds with many in this live-and-let-live city.

LOS ANGELES -- California, always a leader in fashion and fads, is poised to become a national political trendsetter as well.