Do you know enough about your family’s history to write its story? Napans Anna Gentile and Nancy Gilien do — and will receive an award and cash prize for their efforts.

Napa Valley Exposition is an oasis of solitude this weekend. Except for a few bingo games, the 31-acre fairgrounds is as quiet as a state park.

A domestic violence incident that began late Friday evening turned into a hostage situation resulting in the release of two infant hostages and the arrest of a Napa man early Saturday morning.

A bicyclist was stabbed Saturday afternoon on the Napa River Trail, south of Trancas between Soscol and the Napa River, according to police Sgt. John Kostelac. The man was riding his bike on the trail around 4:20 p.m. when he encountered some mechanical difficulties and stopped to fix his bike. He was then encountered by Jesus Artega Martinez, 28, a homeless man, who demanded money from the cyclist according to Kostelac. Martinez then stabbed the man in the neck with a knife.

As the days grow longer and temperatures rise, green goo is multiplying somewhere in the shallower depths of Lake Hennessey — the city of Napa’s drinking supply.

If Napa wants an example of a private developer working with a community fair, it may lie in Madera.

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Buying lunch at school has never been appealing for most students. Just the idea of eating pre-packed, processed pizza or hamburgers and dry, pale vegetables can make a student lose his or her appetite.

Crab feeds are popular fundraisers in Napa but when it comes to raising funds for Napa County Democratic Central Committee and the Democrats of Napa Valley, it’s all about tamales.

Wal-Mart could receive new permits next week for its nearly completed retail and grocery store at Napa Junction in American Canyon.

The St. Helena City Council’s 2006 denial of Rodney Friedrich’s hotel project isn’t the only vote on a south-of-town proposal that’s come back to haunt the city.

CINCINNATI — Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms — wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support.

WASHINGTON — Republican support for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales eroded Sunday as three key senators sharply questioned his honesty over last fall’s firings of eight federal prosecutors. Additionally, two Democrats joined the list of lawmakers calling for Gonzales’ ouster.

SAN FRANCISCO — Faculty and administrators locked in a nearly two-year contract dispute at the nation’s largest four-year public university system agreed Sunday to a temporary contract extension that could ward off a threatened strike.

SACRAMENTO — Jelisa Office was not the kind of 16-year-old girl who went to parties much, and the straight-A student was usually busy with studies or her fast-food job.

LOS ANGELES — Dueling immigration rallies Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of a massive pro-immigrant demonstration that jammed downtown streets with a half-million protesters and framed new debate in Washington.

BAGHDAD — Roadside bombs killed five U.S. soldiers in Iraq Sunday, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital, the military said.

TEHRAN, Iran  — Iran announced Sunday that it was partially suspending cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency, citing the “illegal and bullying” U.N. Security Council sanctions imposed on the country for its refusal to stop enriching uranium.

KANAZAWA, Japan  — A powerful earthquake struck central Japan on Sunday, killing at least one person and injuring 170 others as it toppled buildings, triggered landslides and generated a small tsunami along the coast. The quake was followed throughout the day by aftershocks.

BAGHDAD — The suicide attack against Iraq’s Sunni deputy prime minister is now seen as an inside job carried out by a member of his own security detail — a distant relative who had been arrested as an insurgent, freed at the official’s request, then hired as a bodyguard, a senior security official and an aide to the victim told the Associated Press on Sunday.

SACRAMENTO — State Sen. Jenny Oropeza knows what it’s like to battle cancer, and she doesn’t want others to face the same fight.

BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Britain said Sunday it intends to try to hand power immediately to a new Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland — but is open to Protestant demands for an extension to May.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — After a nomadic decade that carried him from the Australian outback to the battlefields of Afghanistan, David Hicks ended up locked away at this remote U.S. base in Cuba, accused of training with al-Qaida and fighting for the Taliban.

ES SALLAM, Sudan — Britain and Germany called Sunday for tougher action against Sudan to end four years of bloodshed in Darfur, where the new U.N. humanitarian chief warned of a possible collapse in the massive effort to aid refugees from the violence.

NEW ORLEANS — A new crop of experimental heart stents have passed some key safety and effectiveness tests and may one day offer alternatives to the controversial stents currently used to keep unclogged arteries open, doctors reported Saturday.

CINCINNATI — Customers at some suburban pizza parlors are getting something extra with their pepperoni and mushrooms — wanted posters for parents accused of failing to pay child support.

SAN FRANCISCO — It was nearly a decade ago that Jose Cibelli plugged his own DNA into a cow’s egg in a novel cloning attempt that was condemned as unethical by President Clinton and landed the Michigan State University researcher in a mess of controversy.

GALVESTON, Texas — A man and woman fell overboard from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico early Sunday, but both were rescued after a four-hour search and appeared to be in good condition, a cruise line spokeswoman said.

BAGHDAD — With U.S. attack helicopters buzzing overhead, gunmen and Iraqi security forces clashed Sunday in a Sunni area in central Baghdad, and police said at least two people were killed in fighting in the neighborhood’s narrow streets and alleys. Roadside bombings, meanwhile, killed five U.S. soldiers, including four in a single strike in a volatile province northeast of the capital.