Fire destroys AmCan home
A fire destroyed a home in American Canyon Saturday afternoon.
St. Helena graduation shakes up tradition
By JESSE DUARTE
AmCan council
puts a hold on
adult shops
The American Canyon City Council voted unanimously Thursday to place a 45-day moratorium on issuing licenses to adult businesses so city staff can come up with appropriate long-term regulations.
Ready to serve
Three years after graduating from Calistoga High School in 2004, Curtis Madrigal participated in a graduation ceremony of a different sort.
Downtown transformation
Veteran’s Memorial Park: ripped beyond recognition.
Going once, going twice, SOLD!
Joy Craft, a consistently high bidder, raises her paddle to win the Screaming Eagle lot at the Auction Napa Valley live auction. She won the lot with her bid of $500,000. Bid spotter Ben Hoover, left, yells to the auctioneer.
Yearly tallies obscure troubling times for sea otters
MONTEREY — Training her binoculars on a dark patch of seaweed swaying in the shallows, Gena Bentall gasped. After searching for sea otters all day, the research biologist had spotted one: a mother with a pup on her belly, a mauled face dripping blood and a male pursuer hot on her tail.
New Mexico town takes down ‘Stonefridge’ sculpture, citing safety concerns
From The Associated Press
Immigration groups disappointed but determined after bill’s setback
Along the Mexican border in Brownsville, Texas, Esmeralda Gavino echoed the disappointment of many illegal immigrants like her when she said that the immigration reform bill torpedoed on Capitol Hill was not perfect, but it was at least something.
Slaves who died crossing the Atlantic Ocean have a day of remembrance
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
Sex offenders getting younger, more violent
STOCKTON — Courts have seen the number of sex offense cases involving juvenile offenders rise dramatically in recent years, an Associated Press review of national statistics found, and treatment professionals say the offenders are getting younger and the crimes more violent.
Watching bacteria grow drug resistant
Day by day, the doctors unwittingly helped the bacteria infecting their young heart patient to evolve. The more intensively they treated his affliction with antibiotics, the more the microbes resisted the therapy.
Stage and screen actor Harry Frazier dies at 77
Associated Press
Justice Ginsburg finding majorities harder to come by
WASHINGTON — Ruth Bader Ginsburg has no need any longer for her “I’m Ruth, Not Sandra” T-shirt. She could, however, use Sandra Day O’Connor’s vote.
Gender gap in sciences narrows in state universities
Associated Press
Kosovo’s likely future cuts two ways
By TRACY WILKINSON
Bush meets pope, promotes U.S. AIDS work
By TERENCE HUNT
Bush can count on friendly reception at last stops of his European tour in Bulgaria, Albania
SOFIA, Bulgaria — Bulgaria has lost 13 soldiers in Iraq, but says it is committed to the U.S.-led coalition at least until next spring, and Albania professes such an affinity for America that it has issued three stamps featuring President Bush’s likeness and the Statue of Liberty.
Fighting flares again between militants and Lebanese army
TRIPOLI, Lebanon — Lebanon’s army stepped up its assault on Islamic militants hiding inside a Palestinian refugee settlement on Saturday, launching artillery barrages and sending in armored carriers and special forces.
Forecast: World’s Alzheimer’s cases to quadruple by 2050
Associated Press
