City planning commissioners have thrown cold water on the Napa City Council’s desire to approve the conversion of two apartment projects to condominiums.

Like many Napa Valley teens, Natasha Chapman, 18, plans to attend college.

Following reports early last month of E. coli infection in three Napa Valley children -- who got sick from hamburger patties sold at a St. Helena Little League snack shack -- Little League baseball spectators in St. Helena will no longer be able to buy a burger during game time.

The Calistoga City Council has come up with a way to shield residents of the city's four mobile home communities from having to purchase their rental pads.

The decision by St. Helena Unified School District officials and boardmembers to install a new all-weather football field and track at St. Helena High School has sparked protests from graduating seniors and parents, who are dismayed that the work will not allow graduation ceremonies to be held at the football field.

The American Canyon City Council will meet on Tuesdays instead of Thursdays beginning Sept. 4, the City Council voted this week.

LOS ANGELES — David Rosenzweig, a former Los Angeles Times editor whose journalism career included coverage of the Vietnam War, the Hillside Strangler case and the Symbionese Liberation Army, has died. He was 67.

WASHINGTON — Only a fraction of patients with hard-to-treat lymphoma ever try two breakthrough “smart-bomb” drugs that bring radiation straight to cancerous cells — with just two shots a week apart, not the usual months of care.

She had raised her daughter for six years following the divorce, shuttling to soccer practice and cheerleading, making sure schoolwork was done. Then Lt. Eva Crouch was mobilized with the Kentucky National Guard, and Sara went to stay with Dad.

FARMERS BRANCH, Texas -- Cities across the U.S. are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars defending themselves against lawsuits and other challenges to ordinances enacted to keep out illegal immigrants.

GREENSBURG, Kan. -- Most of this southwest Kansas town was destroyed by a tornado, part of a violent storm system blamed for at least nine deaths, officials said Saturday amid warnings of more severe weather.

LOS ANGELES -- Riots, dangerous standoffs and terrorism are crises for which the Los Angeles Police Department created its elite Metropolitan Division.

BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Like the people of New York, Oklahoma City and Littleton, Colo., the Virginia Tech community faces a difficult decision on what it will do with the scene of a tragedy.

Note: All of the listed students earned a 3.33 grade average or better Students who achieved a perfect 4.0 receive special recognition and are noted with an *.

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TORONTO -- The rough ghost town in the Canadian Rocky Mountains that became a prison home for four members of the Suzuki family during World War II did not really seem such a bad place to 6-year-old David.

BAGHDAD -- Al-Qaida in Iraq branded the country's Sunni vice president a "criminal" for participating in the U.S.-backed government, and a suicide bomber Saturday struck army recruits west of Baghdad, killing at least 15 people in another warning to Sunnis not to cooperate with the Shiite leadership.