American Canyon lost its one of its most generous patrons last week. Bernice Newell died Friday afternoon at her American Canyon home at age of 88.

Armed with a translator, Jane Thomson, Napa's code enforcement officer, knocked at 466 Wilson St. Could she take a look inside the garage?

If you spend much time with Michael Pickett, you'll meet creatures such as a stegosaurus, a dragon, a spider and an elephant. You might even spy a a man in a canoe or a Star Wars X-Wing fighter.

A seven-period day at Vintage High School is most likely the solution to the rift between students, parents and the school administrators struggling to increase the emphasis on academics while maintaining support for the arts.

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By JESSE DUARTE

A 50-year-old Yountville man was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident along Dry Creek Road Sunday afternoon.

9 p.m. BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomb struck a patrol base northeast of Baghdad on Monday, killing nine U.S. soldiers and wounding 20 in the single deadliest attack on American ground forces in more than a year, the military said.

WASHINGTON -- Not long ago, Washington lobbyist Wayne Berman and California investor Tom Tellefsen shared the same goal: Raise as much money as possible for George W. Bush. Now they are in opposite presidential camps; Berman with John McCain and Tellefsen with Mitt Romney.

GARDEN CITY, N.Y. -- A sense of humor helps, Lauren Terrazzano says, when you're dying of cancer.

CENTREVILLE, Va. -- Korean Americans in the community where Seung-Hui Cho grew up are still reeling from the shock of learning that the Virginia Tech gunman was one of their own. But many say Cho was a stranger even among the tight-knit families who were his neighbors.

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Anne Payne, program manager for Alzheimer's Day Care Resource Center -- part of Adult Day Services of Napa Valley -- is a great resource for memory issues.

By STEVE LAWRENCE

By TOM COYNE

MERCED-- The company that distributed hamburger patties believed to have sickened at least three Napa County children with E. coli bacteria is blaming the contamination on the slaughterhouse that processed the meat.

LOS ANGELES -- Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., died early Sunday of cancer, an aide said. She was 68.

LOS ANGELES -- A trumpet note rattles Roberto Olmos from slipping into a satisfied slumber after a heaping plate of stewed prickly pears, carne asada and refried beans.

BAGHDAD -- Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while car bombings in the capital killed at least another 20 people.

PARIS -- Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal advanced to a runoff in Sunday's presidential election, presenting France with a fundamental left-right choice between a conservative who could push his anxious nation toward painful change and a socialist who would be the country's first female leader.