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News for Monday, May 07, 2007

Oakland teen stabbed in Napa

A 15-year-old Oakland runaway was stabbed after he left a gathering of several other guests Sunday night at a home in Napa.

Pride on parade

The street curbs of Lincoln Avenue provided hot seats for spectators to admire the floats and pageantry with parade entrants from Napa Valley, as well as places like Benicia and Fairfield.

Manslaughter plea in ’06 Trail accident

A Napa woman, who told police she had taken drugs before getting behind the wheel in the early morning hours of May 17, 2006, has pleaded guilty to one count of felony vehicular manslaughter for the death of a Napa motorcyclist.

DUIs for April 2007

The Napa Valley Register publishes monthly statistics on arrests and convictions for driving under the influence in Napa County. Statistics are published the first Monday of each month.

The Old World in a new country

Editor's note: This article is one in an occasional series, "Living Memories," in which the Register asks Napa Valley residents who recently lost a loved one to revisit the past.

Study: County has nearly 7,000 farmworkers

Most Napa Valley farmworkers are residents of Napa County, and many have never heard of the county's three farmworker centers, according to a new report on farmworker housing demand from a rural think tank.

David Rosenzweig, veteran journalist, dies at 67 in California

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.

Smart bombs for lymphoma underused

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.

Studies hint at unexpected heart rhythm problem with bone-building drugs

BUCKEYE, Ariz. -- Kyle Campos does not look like a pioneer, standing behind the counter at Main Squeeze, tossing frozen berries into a whirling blender. And "go East, young man," doesn't have quite the same ring as the 19th century version.

Searchers dig through wreckage in Kansas town destroyed by tornado

GREENSBURG, Kan. -- Rescue workers on Sunday searched for anyone still buried in the heaps of splintered wreckage left after a massive tornado obliterated most of this south-central Kansas town.

University of California marks decade of race-blind admissions

BERKELEY -- A fit of spring-cleaning led Eric Brooks to a box of old newspaper clips from 1997. That's when he was the lone black student enrolled in the incoming law school class at the University of California, Berkeley, following the end of affirmative action admissions.

Discovery of grenades, land mines prompts evacuations

PIEDMONT -- Residents returned to their homes Sunday afternoon after the morning discovery of grenades and land mines at a house prompted evacuations.

Wreckage of missing Kenya Airways jetliner found in Cameroon forest

DOUALA, Cameroon -- The wreckage of a Kenya Airways jetliner that crashed was found late Sunday in a dense mangrove forest outside Cameroon's commercial capital, aviation officials said. There was no information on survivors.

Bombs kill 8 Americans in Diyala and Baghdad as sectarian tension rises

BAGHDAD -- Roadside bombs killed eight American soldiers in separate attacks Sunday in Diyala province and Baghdad, and a car bomb claimed 30 more lives in a wholesale food market in a part of the Iraqi capital where sectarian tensions are on the rise.

Nicolas Sarkozy wins French presidency

PARIS -- Nicolas Sarkozy, a blunt and uncompromising pro-American conservative, was elected president of France Sunday with a mandate to chart a new course for an economically sluggish nation struggling to incorporate immigrants and their children.

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